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They have it, but they are refusing to play it. At least that's what they said maybe 15 min. ago.

It's too long to play uninterrupted (about six minutes). If viewers tuned in during the middle of it, with no overlapping commentary, it would spook a lot of folks.

141 posted on 08/27/2006 1:58:55 AM PDT by jdm (I gotta give the Helen Thomas obsession a rest.)

148 posted on 08/27/2006 2:03:15 AM PDT by onyx (1 Billion Muslims -- "if" 10% are fundamentalists, that's still 100 Million who want to kill us.)

They specifically said something about how they would describe it, but not PLAY it, as a matter of policy.

I think some kind of "policy balloon" went up at Fox when it became apparent that they are issuing very serious "under duress" statements (and that "policy" may even be governmental, since the statements MAY contain coded instructions for terrorists.)

Anyway, I'm just reporting what they said. Any conjecture on WHY they said it is exactly that -- conjecture. And what they said is that it was a policy decision (not the precise words but that's the essence of it) to NOT play the tape, but to only DESCRIBE what it said (which is what they have been doing in very general terms, which IMO ensures that any coded directives will likely be lost in the paraphrase.)

151 posted on 08/27/2006 2:04:26 AM PDT by Don Joe (We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)

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