Paper Won’t Bow To Terrorist Bombers

Influential and relatively evenhanded for the Middle East, Al-Hayat is often the newspaper of choice when extremists publicize claims of responsibility for attacks.

Now the messenger has become a target.

The interception of five letter bombs addressed to its Washington office left the Arabic paper firm in its determination to stand against terrorist acts.

“Today we can only say that if we were scared, we wouldn’t have chosen journalism as a career,” the London-based international daily said Friday.

And editor Jihad al-Khazin said in a telephone interview: “We will not change our editorial policy.”