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Italian News Agency Denies "Bin Laden Going to Pope's Funeral" Story
2005-04-06
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

#3  Isnt Khatami attending ? Just as bad ...
Posted by: MacNails   2005-04-06 4:11:54 PM  

#2  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.

I don't even see why this news agency is even bothering to engage in denial. The idea of Binny attending the pope's funeral is so far fetched that....well, never mind.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2005-04-06 3:55:10 PM  

#1  Sung to
"How are things in Glocca Mora?"
From "Finnian's Rainbow"

How are things in Tora Bora?
Is that little cave still hidden there?
Does it still shake when the Air Force bombs?
Planes from Kabul, the Uzbeks and Tajiks?
How are things in Tora Bora?
Are winter’s blizzards still intol’rable there?
Does that she-goat with the twinklin' eye
Come a-smilin' by
And does she walk away,
Sad and dreamy there’s no Osama there?
So I seek each hidden entrance
And each trail along the way,
And each she-goat that comes a-sighin'
al-Akhbar
How are things in Tora Bora
This fine day?
Posted by: Ogeretla 2005   2005-04-06 12:31:32 PM  

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