--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: <snip> > Remember when we had Osama's telephone > number? Actually we knew he was using a satellite phone and we > could easily listen in on his conversations. The New York times blew > that for us by printing the story. What did Osama do? Through away > the phone and learned not to use it or any other phones. The New > York Times , Al Qaeda's counter intelligence program.
Oh, this is too rich. What a great example of Republican lies! First of all, it was the right-wing Washington Times, not the New York Times, that published the 1998 story about bin Laden communicating by satellite phone. That was the "leak" the administration railed against. (Actually it was in several papers at almost the same time, but the administration chose to point the finger at the Washington Times.) The Washington Times story, however, did not say anything about the U.S. having his satellite phone number; and the reporter pointed out that the information that he used a satellite phone was already in the public domain. It had been reported in 1996, and the source for that story was none other than the Taliban. For the 1998 story, the source was bin Laden himself, bragging about how he had foiled the U.S. by giving his cell phone to an aide so the U.S. would track the aide rather than himself. The 1998 report that the U.S. had his satellite phone number, moreover, did not appear until *after* he had stopped using the phone. In other words: what MDixon claims above is completely false. He's repeated the administration's lies and added one of his own, that it was the New York Times that published the (nonexistent) "leak." For more, see this 2005 report in the Washington Post: http://tinyurl.com/bdmwf To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
