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   From: olive@LOSETHIScalpha.com   
      
   Doug Maclean extrapolated from data available...   
      
      
   >   
   > Did they ? How about this from the BBC ?   
   >   
   > "26 February 2003 - It emerges that 35-year-old Moazzam Begg, from   
   > Birmingham, is now a detainee at Guantanamo Bay. He is reported to   
   > have been seized in Pakistan. "   
   >   
   > or this ?   
   >   
   > " The web designer, who converted to Islam when he was 23, said his   
   > nightmare began four days into his trip to a region of Pakistan on the   
   > border of Afghanistan.   
   >   
   > When the US began bombing Taleban strongholds he decided to leave and   
   > Mr Udeen said he paid a local truck driver to take him to Turkey - not   
   > realising the route would take him through Afghanistan.   
   >   
   > He said he was initially arrested by the Taleban as a suspected spy   
   > but, when the Americans arrived, US soldiers took him to a   
   > "concentration camp" before being moved to Cuba. "   
   >   
      
   I've heard more credible tales from shoplifting suspects caught with the   
   goods stuffed in their skivvies.  Imagination floweth as a veritable flood   
   from those caught with their hands in the till.   
      
   ....and it does make an interesting commentary on the BBC's already well   
   demonstrated  (and costly to the careers of staff and administrators)   
   ability to believe or create a load of codswallop for sale to a credulous   
   and naive audience.   
      
   "Meanwhile, according to late reports from the BBC's International Service,   
   the sky is again expected to fall...."   
      
   TMO   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)