Did The Washington Post Break Anti-Terror Laws?
Last week, on the same day it ran an editorial blasting Jimmy Carter’s ill-fated meeting with Hamas, the Washington Post ran a guest editorial piece by Hamas co-founder Mahmoud al-Zahar, who is an active leader of the group in Gaza. Al-Zahar’s article was full of the usual putrid hatred spewed by Carter’s buddies. Here is the interesting part. It is common practice for the Washington Post to pay its guest writers a minimum of $200 per article. The question is did the post pay al-Zahar (they aren’t saying)? If the post did pay the terrorist, they broke the law. Maybe they should be a little more careful regarding who’s hatred they publish. Steven Emerson is trying to get to the bottom of who did the Washington Post pay, and how much did they pay: