Open Sesame: Re: circular webs: bert & osama in undoctored photo
Tim May
tcmay at got.net
Wed Oct 10 18:28:49 PDT 2001
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
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