{"id":39723,"date":"2018-10-26T07:23:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T12:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39723"},"modified":"2018-10-26T07:23:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T12:23:46","slug":"killing-journalists-is-wrong-when-the-saudis-do-it-and-when-the-united-states-does-it-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39723","title":{"rendered":"Killing Journalists Is Wrong When the Saudis Do It \u2014 and When the United States Does It, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n

Killing Journalists Is Wrong When the Saudis Do It \u2014 and When the United States Does It, Too<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\"FatimaTareq Ayoub\u2019s daughter, Fatima, 4, and father, Naeem Ayoub, during a protest outside the Al Jazeera office in Amman on Nov. 24, 2005.<\/p>\n

Photo: Majed Jaber\/Reuters<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

WHAT LESSON SHOULD<\/u> be learned from the\u00a0brutal murder<\/a>\u00a0of Washington Post contributor\u00a0Jamal Khashoggi<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0ongoing<\/a>\u00a0geopolitical<\/a>\u00a0fallout<\/a>\u00a0from his death? That governments cannot be allowed to kill journalists with\u00a0impunity<\/a>, correct? Everyone from the\u00a0secretary general of the United Nations<\/a>\u00a0to hawkish\u00a0Republican<\/a>\u00a0senators<\/a>\u00a0have lined up to make this point and to express their concern and anger.<\/p>\n

But is this a lesson that only applies to Middle Eastern dictatorships? Or to Western democracies, too? The United States, perhaps? The reason I ask is that we all now know the name of Arab journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but very few of us know the name of Arab journalist Tareq Ayoub.<\/p>\n

The difference between them? An unelected crown prince in the Gulf is blamed\u00a0for killing Khashoggi, while an elected president of the United States\u00a0has been blamed\u00a0for killing Ayoub.<\/p>\n

We rightly demand justice in the case of Khashoggi, so why not in the case of Ayoub?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

On the morning of April 8, 2003, less than three weeks after U.S. President George W. Bush ordered the\u00a0illegal invasion of Iraq<\/a>, Al Jazeera reporter Tareq Ayoub was on the rooftop of\u00a0his network\u2019s Baghdad bureau. The 35-year-old Palestinian from Jordan and his Iraqi cameraperson, Zoheir Nadhim, were reporting live on a pitched battle between\u00a0U.S. and Iraqi forces for control of the capital. It was just\u00a0three days after\u00a0Ayoub had arrived<\/a>\u00a0in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Killing Journalists Is Wrong When the Saudis Do It \u2014 and When the United States Does It, Too Tareq Ayoub\u2019s daughter, Fatima, 4, and father, Naeem Ayoub, during a protest outside the Al Jazeera office in Amman on Nov. 24, 2005. Photo: Majed Jaber\/Reuters WHAT LESSON SHOULD be learned from the\u00a0brutal murder\u00a0of Washington Post contributor\u00a0Jamal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22167,462,2324,17012,5567,827,5228],"class_list":["post-39723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-jamal-khashoggi","tag-journalism","tag-journalists","tag-mehdi-hasan","tag-the-intercept","tag-united-states","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39724,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39723\/revisions\/39724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}