Re: Powell's Exquisite Evidence: Internet Plagiarism

I read the situation differently:
- Al Jazeera apparently has an agreement with the US to provide copies
of materials from Al Queda.
- Osama bin Laden wants the US to attack Iraq to escalate the conflict.
The timing of Osama's release is designed to support the (false) US
argument that there is a link between Al Queda and Iraq. 

Elson

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> [mailto:wsn-owner@csf.colorado.edu] On Behalf Of Carl Nordlund
> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 3:50 PM
> To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu
> Subject: VB: Powell's Exquisite Evidence: Internet Plagiarism
> 
> 
> This is interesting:
> 
> http://europe.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/02/11/sprj.irq.wrap/index.html
> 
> Osama bin Laden more or less disproving MI6:s conclusion: hey
> look y'all, we're real buddies, me and Mr Hussein.
> 
> To start off with, what I find interesting here is the timing
> of this message. Either Osama, alive and kicking, want the 
> allegded Iraq - al-Qaeda connection accentuated (something 
> Blair  & c:o utterly have failed to do), thus further 
> increasing US public opinion for going to war with Iraq, 
> which in turn most probably would reinforce al-Qaedas own 
> agenda of increased support for getting rid of US forces in 
> Saudi and the Gulf, as well as recruiting more followers to 
> "the base", of course sacrificing Iraq in the process but 
> hey, they're too secular anyway according to Mr Osama.
> 
> But apparently, Mr Powell today knew in advance that
> al-Jazeera was going to broadcast an audio tape from Osama 
> later today. Which is of course highly surprising, unless Mr 
> Powell himself practiced his impersonating skills earlier 
> today. And it's an incredible coincidence that this alledged 
> Osama statement is released just a couple of days after 
> Powell's and Blair's utter failure to convince the public and 
> the reasonable intelligent governments to go to war.
> 
> -----
> Carl Nordlund, BA, PhD student
> carl.nordlund(at)humecol.lu.se
> Human Ecology Division
> www.humecol.lu.se
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