I was watching the Today show this morning and they spent most of their first hour interviewing Sarah Palin. It was pretty uninteresting. What did catch my eye was that in the crawling thing on bottom of the screen it said several times something like "bin Laden plans bigger US attack". It was short and vague and what was most notable was that that was the only mention. In watching for over an hour no one mentioned anything about it, not even in the brief news segments. It just scrolled by.
So I searched now online. Nothing in the New York TImes, Washington Post or the McClatchy news service or Reuters. There's nothing on the MSNBC web site about it. How strange. But there, in the Sydney Morning Herald is an article from yesterday, Bin Laden 'plans new attack on US'.
"Osama bin Laden is planning an attack against the United States that will 'outdo by far' September 11, 2001, an Arab newspaper in London has reported. The warning, on the front page of an Arabic newspaper published in London, Al-Quds Al-Arabi - and reported widely in the major Italian papers - quotes a person described as being "very close to al-Qaeda" in Yemen. The paper is edited by Abdel al-Bari Atwan, who is said to have been the last journalist to interview bin Laden, in 1996."
There are other rumors in that report, including potential attacks in Britain. So is this just fear mongering or is this real with some kind of news blackout going on?
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