Desde El Cairo, gracias a Internet, seguimos a través de los periódicos y la radio, lo que está sucediendo en Madrid. El peor atentado que nadie recuerda. Ya se afirma que ha sido ETA, en quien todo el mundo ha pensado inmediatamente, y tanta es la violencia, que alguien sugiere que pudiese ser Al Qaeda. Hace 3 horas explotaron tres trenes de cercanías causando una masacre, al menos 80 muertos. Existe un conflicto vasco, pero este no está en las diferencias dentro de la sociedad civil, sino entre los que viven fuera de la ley y los que viven respetando los límites que fija para todos el Estado de Derecho.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
May 30, 2004
THE PUBLIC EDITOR; Weapons of Mass Destruction? Or Mass Distraction?
By DANIEL OKRENT
FROM the moment this office opened for business last December, I felt I could not write about what had been published in the paper before my arrival. Once I stepped into the past, I reasoned, I might never find my way back to the present.
Early this month, though, convinced that my territory includes what doesn't appear in the paper as well as what does, I began to look into a question arising from the past that weighs heavily on the present: Why had The Times failed to revisit its own coverage of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction? To anyone who read the paper between September 2002 and June 2003, the impression that Saddam Hussein possessed, or was acquiring, a frightening arsenal of W.M.D. seemed unmistakable. Except, of course, it appears to have been mistaken. On Tuesday, May 18, I told executive editor Bill Keller I would be writing today about The ...
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