Al Queda duped?

[Chuck Munson]

Kevin Robert Dean wrote:
> 
> http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0147/ridgeway2.php
> WASHINGTON, D.C.—Suddenly, Al Qaeda doesn't look so
> smart. Just yesterday, a Times of London reporter
> found a cache of plans, left in a Kabul home as the
> Taliban retreated, that included notes for making a
> thermonuclear device. The papers sent a chill through
> the Western world, since they appeared to indicate
> sophisticated designs for an atom bomb.
> Now the online Daily Rotten says at least part of
> those documents photographed by the Times are taken
> verbatim from a "semi-famous" pseudo-document that has
> been circulating on the Internet for years. It's a
> reprint of a scientific parody called "How to Build an
> Atom Bomb," from the geek-humor newsletter Annals of
> Improbable Research, originally known as the Journal
> of Irreproducible Results.

Reading between the lines, you have to ask who has been duped. It
wouldn't be too hard for the U.S. government to conveniently "leave"
those documents there, in hopes of whipping up anti-Internet hysteria
with the news that "terrorists got nuke plans off the Internet."

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