LGF commends the Albuquerque Tribune-World‘s straightforward headline for recent wire report. AP writes that a former Pakistani army chief advised Iran to head off a possible attack on nuclear facilities by holding Israel hostage. The Tribune World’s headline reads:
Iran uses Israel as hostage
Other papers, like the San Jose Mercury-News (among others) used AP’s more politically correct headline:
Iran sought advice in Pakistan on attack.
What did AP write anyway?
Pakistan’s former army chief says Iranian officials came to him for advice on heading off an attack on their nuclear facilities. He in effect advised them to take a hostage – Israel.
Retired Gen. Mirza Aslam Beg said he suggested their government “make it clear that if anything happens to Iran, if anyone attacks it – it doesn’t matter who it is or how it is attacked – that Iran’s answer will be to hit Israel; the only target will be Israel.”
Mohammad Ebrahim Dehghani, an Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander, was quoted last week as saying that if “America does make any mischief, the first place we target will be Israel.”
The Pakistani advice is hardly novel. Seen it, done it, been there.
