[spycatcher]

You might want to post a link to that story you're alluding to. I doubt they reported Al Qaeda was behind WorldCom's financial statement errors

[Abandon All Hope]

In a July 2 dispatch out of Washington, FoxNews highlighted an "unexpected twist" in the WorldCom saga: a United Press International report, citing emails decoded by the National Security Agency, that al Qaeda claimed its "Operation WorldCon" had demolished WorldCom and "had seriously crippled the entire American military machine that is heavily dependent on the telecom giant."

Furthermore, reported FoxNews, UPI was saying that al Qaeda "sleeper cells" had managed to wreak havoc via financial scandals at other recent corporate casualties, including Enron, Arthur Andersen, and Global Crossing .

It turns out that the UPI article was actually a commentary by editor-at-large Arnaud de Borchgrave, one that later ran in The Washington Times. After de Borchgrave tells his fantastical story, he confesses that this scenario is "a flight of fancy."

In other words, it appears that someone at Fox News didn't realize that de Borchgrave's scoop was a joke. Didn't read all the way through the UPI bulletin. Didn't figure out how de Borchgrave was making some point about corporate executives being as destructive as violent terrorists. Didn't stop to wonder out why al Qaeda members in the Tora Bora caves would care about Adelphia, or why they ever would have heard of it.

The article was quietely removed from the FoxNews website.