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Terrorism "Expert" Drops Case Against Weekly Planet

By AAN Staff
may 23, 2003  01:06 pm
Terrorism "Expert" Drops Case Against Weekly Planet
Steven Emerson, who promotes himself as an investigative reporter with special knowledge of radical Islamic terrorists, has abandoned his four-year-old libel suit against the Weekly Planet and former Editor John Sugg. In a 1998 article, Sugg, now a senior editor at Creative Loafing (Atlanta), questioned Emerson's assertions about terrorist plots against him. Emerson sued, saying the articles defamed him. "Emerson never had a case," Planet Publisher Ben Eason says.
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