Although the first AP story was never retracted, that didn’t prevent Israel’s American amen corner

Although the first AP story was never retracted, that didn’t prevent Israel’s American amen corner

from claiming that it had been withdrawn, nor did it stop Stratfor.com from coming out with an analysis

claiming that Israel knew “days” in advance, and that it wasn’t Scotland Yard that informed

Netanyahu. Former intelligence analyst Tommy Preston, of Preston Global, concurred.

My own column drawing on these sources drew fire, not only from the usual suspects, but also from

dailykos.com, the Democratic party website spawned by the Dean campaign. “http://www.allofmbt.com is

not a legitimate source,” declared one poster.

This from a website that headlined “Did NIKE SHOXCo Tip Off London Bombers?”!

An author who goes by the name “DHinMI” manufactured a quote, purportedly from me, that was nothing

more than a crude fabrication: it had quote marks around it, as if I had written it, when in reality I

had written no such thing. DhinMI’s point: that to even suggest that Netanyahu had advance notice of

the London bombings is so obviously an “anti-Semitic conspiracy theory” that no discussion is

required, regardless of what the Associated Press reports.