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IP: RE: interview censored by U.S. State Dept., published in the UK
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 12:22:43 -0400
From: "D. Ian Hopper" <ihopper () ap org> To: <farber () cis upenn edu> Yeah, it seems to be true, Dave. The Washington Post did a piece about it. The VOA did the piece, but Armitage nixed it. "We told the members of the board of broadcast governors that we didn't think it was appropriate for the Voice of America to be broadcasting the voice of the Taliban into Afghanistan and we didn't think it was consistent with their charter," State Department spokesman Richard A. Boucher said." ... '"Voice of America is not the Voice of Mullah Omar and not the Voice of the Taliban," a senior State Department official said. It would be inappropriate to spend taxpayers' money to broadcast the comments of the leader of the movement protecting the terrorists responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks, he said." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10797-2001Sep22.html
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