NYTimes Manages To Contradict Itself or History Overtakes The Press

This went up earlier at the NYTimes:

As Regimes Fall in Arab World, Al Qaeda Sees History Fly By

By SCOTT SHANE

Published: February 27, 2011

The powerful protests spreading across the Middle East and North Africa have shunned the two central tenets of Al Qaeda’s credo: murderous violence and religious fanaticism.

and now:

Powerful Cleric Joins Protest to Urge Islamic Rule in Yemen

By LAURA KASINOF

Published: March 1, 2011

SANA, Yemen — As thousands of demonstrators for and against President Ali Abdullah Saleh took to the streets on Tuesday, a cleric who is a former mentor of Osama bin Laden joined them to call for the replacement of the government with an Islamic state.

Whew, that was fast.

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