Posted on 10/11/2001 9:06:14 AM PDT by GHCubana
Muslim protesters use bin Laden posters featuring Sesame Street puppet
Muslim protesters are using posters showing the face of Osama bin Laden alongside Bert, the Sesame Street puppet.
It is believed an image of bin Laden with Bert has been inadvertently downloaded from a spoof website.
It has then been used on collage posters printed off to be used by protestors at rallies across the Middle East and Asia.
Photographs of protesters clearly shows them holding posters of Osama bin Laden with a small image of Bert by his right shoulder.
The Associated Press told Ananova the photos are genuine and not doctored.
The image of Bert and bin Laden first appeared in the cult parody website Bert is Evil.
An executive for Sesame Street said: "We're outraged that our characters would be used in this unfortunate and distasteful manner. The people responsible for this should be ashamed."
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_421042.html?menu=news.latestheadlines
Story filed: 14:41 Thursday 11th October 2001
LEARN TO USE THE SEARCH UTILITY....
Someone didn't do his homework....
..insert one 'chill pill' and turn off caps lock.
Also, Fox News has a good article on this.
I shouldn't have gulped that iced tea before taking another look at that photo. Damn that's funny!
Actually, I'm glad GHCubana reposted this article. I saw the other ones but didn't read the words thinking it was just PhotoShop savy users posting in stuff. Only when reading this thread did I realize the protesters actually printed the bogus picture and used them as posters.
HA! HA! HA! HA!
Oh man! That is just too, too funny!
Here's some ideas.....
YEMEN AND OSAMA BIN LADEN
Meanwhile Osama?s relations with the Saudi authorities had become strained and in 1989 they confiscated his passport. When it was returned two years later he moved to Sudan where he founded the Bin Laden Company of Khartoum, specialising in construction and the export of sesame seeds. He was also joined there by many veterans of the Afghan war.
Q Did he tell you why they needed to send Abu Isra Al Iraqi to Cyprus?
He say the sesame, he say the sesame and the peanut, that when we send it to Europe it doesn't make good money, but if we send it to Koprus, over there it's free market area, and we can sell it and make more money than send it direct to the company in Europes, because he say in Koprus, we can take the cover from the sesame and also we can take the red cover from the peanuts, and we package small package and we make more money than we send it direct to the Europe companies.
A nuclear accelerator to be set up in Jordan for regional scientific research is short of funds necessary for jumpstarting it, a European nuclear scientist said on Monday.
The Synchrotron Light for Experimental Science and Appliances for the Middle East (SESAME), a regional research centre for peaceful purposes, requires $6 million for the project to become operational, said Herwig Schopper, former director general of the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN).
Well this was the first time that the picture has shown Bert clearly! Thanks! I finally got the joke.
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