NYT Quotes Taxi Driver For Headline on Somalia

The New York Times knows it is unaccountable in American media circles, so its headline "Airstrike Rekindles Somalis’ Anger at the U.S." is based on the quotation of "Deeq Salad Mursel, a taxi driver" who sees the US gunship attacks on Al Qaeda suspects as revenge for Blackhawk Down in 1993. NYT sleuthy newsman Gettleman [a well-known local beer in Milwaukee] also gets a cellphone conversation from an Islamist Minister of Health who claims the gunships killed cattle and kids, in that order of importance. But Gettleman notes he has no proof his telephone interlocutor was actually a Minister.

However, in their rush to blame the US for destroying potential sworn enemies, the NYT dropped one of its cardinal PC rules:

The last remnants of the Islamist forces fled to Ras Kamboni, an isolated fishing village on the Kenyan border that residents said had been used as a terrorist sanctuary before. Starting in the mid-1990s, they said, the Islamists built trenches, hospitals and special terrorist classrooms in the village and taxed local fisherman to pay the costs.

Oops, the managing editor on duty will be reprimanded sternly by Larry Keller and Pinch S for use of the "T" word.

Alternatively, Gettleman had no idea his quote from an angry taxi driver would be the headline for his article, and it was inserted by a Bush-hating senior editor at the NYT. Could this be possible? At a "newspaper of record?"