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Terror Networks
Al-Jazeera admits Bin Laden video was a rerun
2005-12-07
A videotape claiming Osama Bin Laden is still "alive and fighting" dates back to September, Arab television channel al-Jazeera has admitted. Al-Jazeera's editor-in-chief, Ahmed Sheikh, said his channel had broadcast the footage by mistake. Mr Sheikh said it had received the video in September and aired "the important parts" at the time.

In the video, Bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, also claimed al-Qaeda was behind the London bombings on 7 July. "We got the videotape in September, and back then we aired what we thought were the important parts," Mr Sheikh told the AFP news agency. "There was a misunderstanding today, and we aired these extracts today by mistake."
I hate it when I sit down to watch my favorite show and it turns out to be a old episode, don't you?
Zawahiri claimed in September that al-Qaeda's leader was still alive and leading a "holy war" against the West. He called for attacks on oil targets and said al-Qaeda was "spreading and expanding and strengthening".
So still no word from Zawahiri or Binny since the earthquake hit.
Posted by:Steve

#7  Therefor, they lied to make a story.

Well, we know where Mapes is working now.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2005-12-07 13:22  

#6  Oh man, Steve, now I have that Kingston Trio song running through my brain! Thanks (not) .... heh.

Good one.
Posted by: lotp   2005-12-07 13:12  

#5  Let me tell you a story
about a man named Osama
On a tragic and fateful day.
He put ten rupees in his pocket,
kissed his camel and family,
and went to ride on the Jihad Express.

Chorus:
O did he ever return,
no he never returned;
and his fate is still unlearned.
He may rot forever
‘neath the streets of Peshawar
he’s the man who never returned.

He handed in his rupees
at the Lahore Square Station
and he headed for Islamabad
When he got there
the Conductor told him:
“One more rupee.”
Osama couldn’t get off of that train.

All day long
Osama rides throught the stations thinking:
‘What will become of me.
How can I afford to see my sister in Karachi,
and my brother in Rawalpindi?’

Osama’s wife goes down
to the Lahore Square Station
every day at quarter past two;
and throught the open window
she hands Osama a kabab
as the train goes rumbling through.

O did he ever return,
no he never returned;
and his fate is still unlearned.
He may rot forever
‘neath the streets of Peshawar
he’s the man who never returned.
Posted by: Steve   2005-12-07 12:15  

#4  Showing an old film and claiming Bin Laden is alive is not an error. You don't say let's prove Bin Laden is alive and then accidentley get an old film, if a new one was sent to you. So obviosuly there was no new one. Therefor, they lied to make a story. Or did we pay to have the story put on thier channel?
Posted by: plainslow   2005-12-07 11:40  

#3  Well the November sweeps are over...
Posted by: tu3031   2005-12-07 10:33  

#2  Congratulating Bill Clinton on his reelection makes sense now.
Posted by: ed   2005-12-07 10:13  

#1  I don't know if this ever happens to you, but if I only manage to see any given series two times in a season, the second time is always a rerun of the episode I saw earlier. Creepy, no?
Posted by: Seafarious   2005-12-07 10:10  

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