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Can the "staff" of the Daily Star explain this headline and this story for me: "Israeli soldier wounded in 2006 war out of hospital." Who effing care? Why is this a story? This is like a story about Sharon moving his toe.

Salma el-Wardani's testimony re what happened in Sudan, negating the alleged "massacre" the Egyptian govt and media was claiming to have happened on the hands of the Algerian fans. The testimony was refused by both the Arabic paper and the website, and we decided to publish it in the English Edition despite pressures from the management. Salma el-Wardani resigned shortly after.

Yes it was published by us, and what was Nora's reaction? Salma got scolded by Nora when she said "she trusts the English Edition not to mess up her account." Nora gave her then the whole management line of: There is no editorial differences between the Arabic and English Editions... which is of course BS.

Nora, as expected, rallies to the defense of the management. Yes, it was news report, but since she mentioned "facts" that went against the editorial line of "there is a massacre" that happened in Khartoum, it was refused. And her eyewitness account was refused too by both the paper and the Arabic site.