I'm glad you mentioned ABC, because it reminded me of something I just read last night, in the book Terrorist Hunter
The author was talking about a satellite phone that was purchased by an American citizen Ziyad Khalil. I'll quote directly here from the book:
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"What was the deal with that phone? It turned out that ABC News was seeking a personal interview with Bin Laden in 1998. They contacted Khalid al-Fawwaz, Bin Laden's aide in Britain. Al-Fawwaz referred them to a Mr. Tariq Hamdi in Washington. ABC then wrote a letter addressed to Mohammed Atef -- Bin Laden's senior military commander -- as a follow-up request for the interview. The letter referred to their previous communications through Hamdi, whom Atef, it seemed, knew well. When the interview was set up, Hamdi traveled with the ABC News crew to Afghanistan. On May 17, 1998, upon his arrival in Pakistan, Hamdi faxed a personal message to al-Fawwaz telling him that they'd arrived safely and that things were going according to plan. What plan? Ziyad Khalil bought the phone. It was a special purchase for Usama Bin Laden himself. He then bought the battery, but there was a problem getting it easily to Afghanistan. What better way to do so than to have ABC News arrange -- and pay for -- Hamdi's trip, enabling him to deliver this battery personally?
"So what's the big deal? you may ask. So what if Hamdi delivered some battery to Bin Laden?
"The big deal is that this specific battery powered the satellite phone Bin Laden used to personally give the order to blow up the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
"The big deal is that a man who worked with Sami al-Arian made the embassy bombings possible, with an able assist from ABC News."
end quote (I underlined some parts of this, but all other emphasis was original to the book)
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So once again, our fifth column friends in the media get themselves mixed up in situations that are causing outright tragedies for our country!
And if anyone wants to read a fascinating book, this one is it. Highly recommended!
It's a wonder they didn't have film crews at the ready. Thanks for the heads up on the book.
DITTOS on the book "Terrorist Hunter". It is a MUST READ!