ABC, FBI Punk'd by Terror 'Fan Video'


	ABC, FBI Punk'd by Terror 'Fan Video'

sahara

5-28-2008 4:15 PM

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"The intel community appears to have (once again) fallen victim to poorly researched open source news reporting," writes Evan Kohlmann over at the Counterterrorism Blog.
Look, reporters get stories wrong all the time. And ABC, to its credit, has revised its original report... but only slightly. There's a caveat from Venzke buried in the piece. The headline now reads: "Al Qaeda Supporters' Tape to Call for Use of WMDs." The quote from FBI spokesman Kolko remains the same.
Video is here: http://worldanalysis.net/postnuke/html/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1016

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