posted on Sep, 3 2003 @ 06:13 PM
Not.
But you already knew that, didn't you?
It sure fooled some neo-con writers and captive media still clutching at straws...
Aficionados of the Drudge Report may have noticed several striking headlines recently linking to stories from the World Tribune, an enterprise with a
title as grand and ambitious as it is unfamiliar. One such story last week began, �U.S. intelligence suspects Iraq�s weapons of mass destruction have
finally been located.� The apparent scoop�of stop-the-presses significance�was unsigned, and billed as a �special to World Tribune.com.� The Times,
the Journal, and the Washington Post, meanwhile, not only got beat but failed even to acknowledge the news in the days that followed. What gives?
Not everyone ignored it: Rush Limbaugh, for instance. �There�s a piece in the World Tribune today�one of the papers in the United Kingdom�exactly as
theorized on this program early on,� he said on his radio show. �It�s unconfirmed, but it�s a story that many of the weapons of mass destruction are
at present buried in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon.� Fox News, catering to a similar demographic, enlisted a military analyst that evening to discuss
potential ramifications�military intervention in Lebanon?�on �The O�Reilly Factor.� According to the story, the weapons were probably delivered to the
Bekaa Valley, a Hezbollah stronghold, in a caravan of tractor-trailers that was spotted leaving Iraq in January, two months before the war began, as
part of a multimillion- dollar storage deal between Saddam Hussein and the Syrian government.
(Read on.... The World Tribune is not a UK paper, but a Virginia-produced website... or is it?)
newyorker.com...