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Tuesday 5 October 2010

The one hundredth weekly "No shit, Sherlock" award

The one hundredth weekly "No shit, Sherlock" award is awarded in the same week as the ninety-ninth but it is for a headline that just screams out 'award me the title'. The winner is The Mail for blindingly obvious 'Taliban has infiltrated Afghan forces, claims ex-UN official in warning that sleeper cells are awaiting instructions to strike'

Really, do you think so? even The Mail manages to report at the end of the piece some recent events which sort of make my point:
'Earlier this year, in January, the Taliban said one of its fighters had infiltrated the Afghan army to carry out an attack which killed seven CIA operatives in Afghanistan.

And in November last year, an Afghan policeman shot dead five British troops in the southern province of Helmand.'


So 'Taliban has infiltrated Afghan forces ... sleeper cells are awaiting instructions to strike' - "No shit, Sherlock"

So

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