Off topic but... 10:08pm Tokyo Time
BBC Radio is reporting NOW that Iran Radio is reporting that Osama Bin Laden has been captured...
SHEESH. Now the BBC is saying that the CIA says it's not true (10:14 Tokyo Time, Weds, March 12)
Bloomberg TV is saying (10:20pm Tokyo Time) it was a planted fake story---a stock traders' scam to make money on the futures market...which is now being called the "Bin Laden Bounce". The BBC got snookered.
Rest-of-the-story...
US: no evidence of 'Bin Laden capture'
Wednesday March 12, 2003 / Guardian, UK
The US today said it had no information to substantiate reports that Osama bin Laden had been captured in Pakistan.
