Joe Pitts: “the U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, David Welch, recently published an op ed in an Egyptian newspaper encouraging newspaper…”

“the U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, David Welch, recently published an op ed in an Egyptian newspaper encouraging newspaper editors to be more careful about vetting articles before publishing them. There has been an upsurge of hate speech and commentary in that region suggesting that al-Qaeda was not responsible for the attack on 9/11. Ambassador Welch rightly pointed out that there is overwhelming and conclusive proof that al-Qaeda planned and executed the attack, including al-Qaeda's own admission. Newspapers have a responsibility to report the truth, and not to repeat lies and ridiculous rumors. Now our Ambassador has a bunch of Egyptian columnists, writers, and cartoonists angry with him. They issued a statement that he should go back to his country, and accused him of only seeing the region through Israeli eyes. Egypt is a friend and ally of the United States, but I think it would be appropriate for that country's journalists to treat Ambassador Welch with more respect and to report the truth, just as Ambassador Welch has suggested.”