At 16:55 11/14/2002 -0900, BLT referenced an article:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/DK15Aa01.html
Seven Nukes in US Cities al-Qaedo Warns
THE ROVING EYE
Apocalypse Now, or Alottanukes Soon By
Pepe Escobar
Got the following when I went to check the link:
Article withdrawn. This
The journalist in me insists that an article as significant as
this one requires some independent verification. This is ever
more hard to do, but still possible, and the best place to start
is with the source of the original information, which usually
gives clues to its validity.
Look at the
After much pondering, Larry Jackson favored us with:
Alottanukes Soon is not the sort of title I would expect to
see in a professional magazine or journal. It is the sort of
title I would expect my friends to make up when joking around
on a weekend evening. This, in and of itself, of course
At 07:24 11/15/2002 -0900, BLT wrote:
After much pondering, Larry Jackson favored us with:
Alottanukes Soon is not the sort of title I would expect to
see in a professional magazine or journal. It is the sort of
title I would expect my friends to make up when joking around
on a weekend evening.
John Redelfs:
I completely missed the Alottnukes Soon in the byline. I
am embarrassed that I passed on a hoax. I don't do that
very often. Normally, I consider World Net Daily to be a
pretty reliable source of information, ...
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To be honest, I went straight to the story and
