IP: Re: Bin Laden's relatives made a first-class escape

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: Joel Snyder <Joel.Snyder () Opus1 COM>
> Subject: Re: IP: Bin Laden's relatives made a first-class escape
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
>
> This is senseless pandering and propaganda.  Like many wealthy Saudi
> families, there are a number of wives and a lot of children.  It has
> been reported that Awad bin Laden had 50 children, giving Osama bin
> Laden 49 "half brothers" (and half sisters).  The family has taken great
> pains publically, long before the Sept 11th incident, to emphasize that
> Osama bin Laden is completely cut off and that they have no
> communication or relationship to him.  Osama bin Laden has been a wanted
> man for many years, and this is not the first time that someone has
> noticed that he has relatives who live in the US.
>
> The family probably chose to leave the US largely because of fear of
> exactly this kind of yellow journalism: that someone would suddenly
> decide that "bin Laden" as a family name meant "going to jail."  As some
> of the notes you've forwarded to IP recently prove, we're ready to
> slice-and-dice the constitution significantly in the aftermath of the
> Sept. 11th disaster.  Similarly for the investment issues: it is a
> matter of appearances only, which the US media appears to be highly
> attuned to.  The perception of reality is so much more interesting than 
> reality.
>
> This whole article is offensive and the worst sort of journalistic 
> sensationalism.
>
> jms


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