The Washington Post publishes an op—ed calling Marwan Barghouti, a terrorist, a "prisoner of conscience." This bizarre terminology for someone with by definition no conscience, is used by one Saad Eddin Ibrahim, who is identified as: ...an Egyptian democracy activist and a sociology professor at the American University in Cairo. He is currently a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, writing his prison memoirs. Marwan Barghouti was convicted on May 20th, 2004 of three terror attacks in which 5 Israeli civilians were murdered and also convicted of attempted murder, membership in a terror organization and conspiring to commit a crime. He was a leader of the militant Al—Aqsa Martyr Brigades, which claimed responsibility for a series of suicide attacks against Israeli civilians.  Some "prisoner of conscience." Why is this person is a public policy "scholar" at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars? Such false...(Read Full Post)