Terrorists Kill Nuns at Nursing Home in Yemen; Networks Out To Lunch

Matthew Balan | March 8, 2016
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[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]

As of the morning of 8 March 2016, ABC, CBS, and NBC's morning and evening newscasts have yet to cover the attack by suspected ISIS gunmen in Aden, Yemen on Friday which left 16 people dead — including four nuns of Mother Teresa's order — at a nursing home. According to a Friday report by the New York Times, the deceased Nobel Peace Prize winner founded the home, which was "one of several care facilities in Yemen established by Mother Teresa beginning in the 1970s."

Correspondent Hakim Almasmari, who is based out of Sanaa, Yemen,  filed a report on the terrorist attack on the 6 March 2016 edition of CNN Newsroom. Almasmari pointed out that the nuns "were loved by almost all of the people of Aden for helping those people...even al Qaeda — AQAP — condemned...the attack on these nuns and civilians in this nursing home." He also noted that "it's not the first time attacks happened against Christians. This happened many years back in the early '90s in the port city of Hudaydah."

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