That stubbornly one-sided approach has now extended to the fifth anniversary of the Hariri slaying. Instead of acknowledging the flaws in Mehlis's initial findings or recognizing how recklessly premature those accusations were the Times is now promoting a conspiracy theory that U.N. officials willfully tanked the investigation.
Yet the only conspiracy that Young's article seems to corroborate is the one in which the Times and its editors relentlessly portray Muslim governments that are out of Washington's favor as the "bad guys."
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