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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (262713)	6/10/2002 9:31:17 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769667

CROOKED NEW YORK TIMES... HERE'S MORE PROOF OF DECEPTIVE PRACTICES New York Times Hides 'Bad Screw-up' on bin Laden It turns out the leftist New York Times did the same thing it accuses the Bush administration of doing: overlooking the danger of al-Qaeda before Sept. 11. Terrorism expert Peter Bergen told the Times last August that it should report about an al-Qaeda videotape he had obtained, the Washington Post reported today. "I think there is a major story to be told," he wrote to Times reporter John Burns, "wrapping around the new bin Laden videotape and the various threats against U.S. facilities in the past months which can paint both a compelling picture of the bin Laden organization today, and responsibly suggest that an al Qaeda attack is in the works. ... Clearly, al Qaeda was and is planning something." The Pulitzer-winning Burns reported this in a story that appeared on the Times' Web site Sept. 8. "But Burns's prescient piece about Osama bin Laden never appeared in the newspaper, and the Times quickly expunged it from the electronic archives." 'A Bad Screw-up' Bernard Gwertzman, editor of Nytimes.com, admitted "a bad screw-up." He told the Post that the article was scheduled for publication Sept. 9, a Sunday. After editors held the story late Saturday, Gwertzman says, "the paper called the next day and complained, and my day producer just pulled the story. The resulting problem was that people who'd seen the story then tried to search for it, and because it was expunged from our system, you couldn't find it." He says the Web site "probably shouldn't have pulled it off." So why is the story still missing from the archives? "Reading the piece now is downright eerie," says the Post. Burns described the "fire-and-brimstone" declarations of bin Laden, who "declares his purpose - killing Americans and Jews - more starkly than ever. Proudly, he salutes the suicide bombing of the American destroyer Cole ... and promises more attacks. ... "With his mockery of American power, Mr. bin Laden seems to be almost taunting the United States." newsmax.com