On Wednesday, October 10, 2001, at 02:59 PM, Dynamite Bob wrote:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,36218,00.html
NEW YORK Do the global terror links reach even as far as Sesame Street? Is Bert the Muppet a henchman of terrorist mastermind Usama bin Laden?
The answer is clearly no, but puzzled newspaper readers are still wondering how the Sesame Street icon ended up in a news service photograph of a pro-bin Laden protest in Bangladesh. The pictures clearly showed demonstrators holding up a large poster in which bin Laden and Bert are standing next to each other.
The picture quickly began making the e-mail rounds Wednesday morning, astonishing and provoking laughter from Los Angeles to Switzerland to South Korea.
The poster is a collage of pictures of bin Laden in white robes, camouflage fatigues and lecturing with a microphone in his hand, all ringing a large portrait of the bearded Saudi exile. Along the bottom is printed "Usama." On the right side of the picture, just past the right shoulder of the large portrait, is irascible Bert, bosom buddy of Ernie.
The photographs do not appear to have been doctored. They were taken by news photographers covering at least two different demonstrations from different angles on at least two separate days.
In the name of Allah the Merciful and by all things great and small, the message is our call to initiate Open Sesame, the One Thousand and One Nights of Jihad. God is Great!
--Tim May "Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't." --Condor Chef