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Monday, August 25, 2003
Catching up on the news.
What could be better than coming back from a three-day weekend and
finding more than 220 e-mails, nearly all of them spam? Good grief.
I'm still catching up with the news, so pardon today's minimalist
Media Log.
Of all the unanswered questions
surrounding the murder of former priest John Geoghan, the one I find
most intriguing -- if perhaps among the least important -- is why his
accused killer changed his name from Darrin E. Smiledge to Joseph L.
Druce.
The Globe
and the Herald
don't know why. So what is the story? Is there a character in some
neo-Nazi or white-supremacist fiction named Joseph L. Druce? Was he
trying to pull a scam? Perhaps we'll find out soon.
It's time to start listening to
Scott Ritter. Actually, we should have listened to the former UN
weapons inspector before the war in Iraq, but I -- like many
observers -- thought his flip-flop on Iraq's weapons of mass
destruction made him less than credible. And
then he was silenced.
Today he has an
op-ed piece in the New
York Times in which he asks a devastating question: why -- if
former Iraqi officials are to be believed -- did American troops
allow looters to destroy records pertaining to the weapons
program?
It's a question that demands an
answer.
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Dan Kennedy is senior writer and media critic for the Boston Phoenix.
