Silly Little Country

A Revealing Omission from AP

This AP report includes the following passage regarding the Israeli strike on a mosque:

The mosque destroyed Friday was known as a Hamas stronghold, and the army said it was used to store weapons. Hamas has boasted that more than 100 of the mosque's worshippers have been killed in the past on missions against Israelis.

The IDF have released the following video of that strike:

Maybe in Gaza 'mosque' means arsenal? AP is being at least coy here - 'the army said it was used to store weapons'. Indeed.

UPDATE: Yup, it IS looking as if mosque in Gazan means arsenal. Charles Johnson links to another case supplied by the IAF.

Labels: apples, Gaza, lying by omission

posted by Alan Adamson @ 9:11 AM