Insurgent My Ass

The opening line of the relevant Washington Post article on the Jordanian bombings:

The insurgent organization Al Qaeda in Iraq claimed responsibility Thursday for the blasts that tore through three hotels here Wednesday night, the deadliest terror attack ever carried out in Jordan.

How the hell is Al Qaeda in Iraq an insurgent operation? The leader is a Jordanian. Can’t we all agree that Al Qaeda, at least, is a terrorist organization?

Then the writer (Jonathan Finer) contradicts himself in the first sentence. Shouldn’t an insurgent organization perform insurgent attacks? How can it be a terror attack if it is done by insurgents? If it’s not the reporter what moron editor at WP demanded that Al Qaeda not be called a terror organization?

And they wonder why the papers are loosing readership.