[19 Aug 2004, N&O Sami A. Halaby],

A page 7a headline of your 7/19/04 edition reads "Assassination plots lead to hunt for 6 Palestinians," while the story identifies all the suspects as Pakistanis. Now this normally would have been an embarrassing and amusing error, if it were not typical of the cavalier fashion with which you have been choosing your headlines on the Middle East. After all, what difference does it make Pakistanis or Palestinians, they are all oriental Muslim terrorists. Why not demonize the Palestinians or better still why not both of them once in the headline and the other in the story line. You have to pardon my sarcasm, since I am sure that is not your intent.  It just must be  a subliminal slip.  

Sami A. Halaby