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August 29, 2006
People are talking
It's kinda funny that this Douglas Davis continues to be presented in the National Post as "a member of the Middle East Writers' Group" when, as Google, numerous news databases, and Paul Wells hilariously show, he appears to have made this group up and installed himself as its sole member. Perhaps Davis isn't aware of blogs (or Google, or the internet), but I know for a fact the Post's ed board is. You'd think they'd pass on the message.
Incidentally, Factiva yielded only one reference to this shadowy op-ed cabal, and it comes in an amusing letter to the Spectator's March 11, 2006 issue:
Having just returned from Jordan, I am bewildered by Douglas Davis's article on that country's future ('Will Jordan be the new Palestine?', 4 March). He is hot on political theory, but ignores completely the strength of support of the Jordanian people for King Abdullah. This, as for all the king's predecessors, has been the core continuance enabling the kingdom to survive amid its turbulent neighbours. Visitors are told repeatedly by Jordanians at all levels of society of their admiration for their king. As one said to me, 'He is one of us, there is no divide.'
Indeed, my experience causes me to wonder if there is something in Mr Davis's personal political agenda that he should have revealed in his article as he asserted, twice, that King Abdullah had a 'deeply corrupt relationship with Saddam's family', but failed to give his evidence. To sustain his claims and to support the credibility of 'The Middle East Writers' Group' to which he belongs, surely he is duty bound to go to Jordan and state his evidence there, in public.
Kenneth Warren Cranbrook, Kent
Mr Cranbrook seems to be on to him…
Posted by Chris Selley at August 29, 2006 09:07 PM
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