Sunday, October 23, 2005

Nuclear and Chemical Weapons ?

In an interview with Dawn, a Pakistani newspaper, Osama Bin Laden has admitted to owning nuclear and chemical weapons. I found this statement interesting though...
  • But in the Urdu version of the article, Bin Laden does not threaten to use nuclear or chemical weapons.
Why would different language versions of the same paper have such a significant difference ? Does this mean that the news fed to the Urdu-speaking world is different from what is fed to the rest of us ? Why would the Pakistani media shoot itself in the foot on such a sensitive topic ? This is beyond me...

Of course, I must state that this article is dated in 2001...came across this article when I was searching for something else...

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