CNN’s Nic Robertson Interviews Khaled Meshaal
The one comment Nic made was to dispute Meshaal’s assertion that they (Hamas) provided captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit with Glasses which were provided to them by his parents. But that is not what Meshaal said. I can understand Robertson misunderstanding Meshaal but CNN’s website contains the same mistake and attributes it to Meshaal as a quote.
From CNN’s Website
When he asked us to bring him a medical glasses for his sight, we did so as humanitarian duty. We treat Gilad Shalit in a humanitarian way that is in line with the Palestinians’ morals,” he said.
What Meshaal actually said was “when he asked us to bring to him medical glasses for his sight, we did our humanitarian duty“.
My assumption from that was that they provided him with glasses, although not the same glasses that the family provided. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports why this would be the case.
Last year, Shalit’s captors refused to accept a pair of eye glasses sent by his parents because they feared they were embedded with miniature electronic devices.
That would not be a paranoid.
