ml> FWIW: i heard the same thing on several different news sources... only
 ml> one of which was american...

 DD> But all fed from the US news source?

the BBC, for one?? seems to me they have their own reporters and investigations...

 DD> Do you ever visit http://english.aljazeera.net ?

BoC... do you think i am stoopid or something? how do you know that their
info isn't slanted one way or the other?

[oops! just realized what area this is... apologies... please reply in a
more approprate forum... i can't at the moment and this will be gone before
i get a chance to move it.]

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