11) Juan Williams / Abu Yahya al-Libi

June 26, 2012

Juan Williams

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Williams
“””Juan Williams (born April 10, 1954) is an American journalist and political analyst for Fox News Channel. He also writes for several newspapers including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal and has been published in magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly and Time. He was a senior news analyst for National Public Radio (NPR) from 1999 until October 2010. At The Washington Post for 23 years, Williams has worked as an editorial writer, op-ed columnist, White House correspondent and national correspondent.
Williams is the author of Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 (1988),[1] a companion to the documentary series of the same name about the African-American Civil Rights Movement;Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary (2000), a biography of Thurgood Marshall, the first black American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States; and Enough (2006), which was inspired by Bill Cosby’s speech at the NAACP gala, and deals with Williams’ critique of black leaders in America, and as he puts it the “culture of failure.”[2] Williams has received an Emmy Award and critical praise for his television documentary work and he has won several awards for investigative journalism and his opinion columns.

Career:
[edit]Washington Post
Some days after Williams wrote a column defending Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas against sworn testimony by Anita Hill charging sexual harassment by Thomas, it was revealed that several female employees of the Post had filed sexual harassment charges against Williams.[4] The paper took disciplinary action against Williams and published an apology by him.[5] On November 2, 1991, Williams wrote: “It pained me to learn during the investigation that I had offended some of you. I have said so repeatedly in the last few weeks, and repeat here: some of my verbal conduct was wrong, I now know that, and I extend my sincerest apology to those whom I offended.”[6]
[edit]National Public Radio
Williams joined NPR in 2000 as host of the daily afternoon talk show Talk of the Nation.[3] He then served as senior national correspondent for NPR.[7] As a result of Williams’ commentary on the Fox News Channel, NPR’s President and CEO Vivian Schiller requested that Fox stop identifying him as an NPR host in 2009. NPR Ombudsman Alicia Shepard maintained that: “Williams tends to speak one way on NPR and another on Fox.”[8] Williams’ comment on January 26, 2009, to Bill O’Reilly and Mary Katharine Ham, while appearing on Fox News’ O’Reilly Factor, triggered the move”””

Abu Yahya al-Libi

Abu Yahya al-Libi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Yahya_al-Libi
(c. 1963[1] – June 4, 2012),[2] born Mohamed Hassan Qaid,[3] was an Islamist terrorist and leading high-ranking official within al-Qaeda, and an alleged member of theLibyan Islamic Fighting Group.[1][4][5]

He is believed to have been able to speak Urdu, Pashto and Arabic[1] and to have used the aliases Hasan Qaiid (Hasan Qayad or Hassan Qayid), Yunis al-Sahrawi,[4][6] and Hassan Qaed al-Far[7]

Al-Libi was a citizen of Libya, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the Bagram interim detention facility.[8] At that time, American counter-terrorism analysts asserted that al-Libi was a member of al Qaeda. Al-Libi was one of several high-profile Bagram captives who escaped on the night of July 10, 2005.[4][5][8]

Jarret Brachman, a former analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), states of al-Libi:

He’s a warrior. He’s a poet. He’s a scholar. He’s a pundit. He’s a military commander. And he’s a very charismatic, young, brash rising star within Al-Qaeda, and I think he has become the heir apparent to Osama bin Laden in terms of taking over the entire global jihadist movement.[4]
Scheuer states of him that he “in the last year or so emerged as al-Qaeda’s theological hardliner” and an “insurgent-theologian”[5]He was also an official on al-Qaeda’s Shariah Committee.[9]

The United States targeted him with a drone strike on June 4, 2012 in Mir Ali where he was killed.[10] However, a senior Pakistan Taliban commander later told The Daily Telegraph that Libi was not caught in the attack. The commander claimed “The vehicle belonged to al-Libi but at the time he wasn’t in the vehicle.”[11][12] Another senior Pakistan Taliban commander, however, told Reuters that Libi was killed and described his death as a “big loss.”

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