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Italian News Agency Denies "Bin Laden Going to Pope's Funeral" Story
Italy's leading news agency has denied reporting that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden would attend Pope John Paul's funeral Friday after a story attributed to it circulated widely on the Internet. "Some people just won't stop even at a time of mourning for the Pope: among the deluge of false emails, viruses and spam, a false item attributed to Ansa is circulating about Osama bin Laden attending the funeral of John Paul II," the Ansa agency said.

In a dispatch issued late Tuesday, Ansa noted that Giuliana whatserface from Il Manifesto the prankster, who specified bin Laden would be flying to Rome from Pakistan, had accurately imitated the agency's sign-off style -- a series of letters and numbers at the end of every item. The Saudi-born bin Laden is thought to be a decaying protein spot in some godforsaken cave hiding on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Posted by: Desert Blondie 2005-04-06
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