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To: epicure who wrote (214295)	8/2/2007 10:59:08 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793838

In the court proceedings, the publisher and author “accepted that there was no truth whatsoever in any of these allegations. They acknowledged that Sheikh Khalid had no connection whatsoever with Osama bin Laden or the supporting or funding of terrorist activities, left NCB only for health reasons, and was not stripped of his passport or confined to a military hospital. They also accepted that Nimir Petroleum was not owned by a funder of terrorism and was not involved in any Afghan pipeline project and has never had any dealings with the Taliban regime.” Pluto Press and Griffin agreed to destroy all copies of the book, to desist from repeating these allegations, and “to publish an apology on www.plutobooks.com, in the Bookseller magazine and in the British Institute of Middle East Studies Newsletter.” In August 2005, all signs of a connection with Griffin or the book, which they had published in two editions (2001, 2003), had vanished from the Pluto Press Website. journals.cambridge.org Sounds like there were some reporting errors made- rather large ones. Surely it could have been shown that he had been confined to a military hospital or been stripped of his passport? I mean those facts don't require secret US documents, and those facts alone are libel. But it sounds like there were numerous false statements.