Who is Al-Jazeera Fooling?
This morning, Powell discusses a Bin Laden tape and Al-Jazeera denies it exists: Powell said he read a transcript of “what bin Laden – or who we believe to be bin Laden” will be saying on the Al-Jazeera Arab satellite station later Tuesday, “where once again he speaks to the people of Iraq and talks about their struggle and how he is in partnership with Iraq.” But Al-Jazeera chief editor Ibrahim Hilal told The Associated Press his station has no such tape. And yet later today, Al-Jazeera airs that very same tape: Yasser Thabet, a broadcast editor at Al-Jazeera, said the tape appears to be authentic because the television station got it through the same means as previous bin Laden statements. He did not elaborate. “When you listen to the tape, you can tell it’s Osama bin Laden’s voice,” Thabet said. Who are they fooling?
