The NYT has virtually no credibility left.
Newspaper apologises over al-Qaeda gaffe
NICHOLAS CHRISTIAN
THE troubled New York Times last night apologised for another embarrassing gaffe after it admitted its page-one story on Friday about a new video in which Osama bin Laden?s top deputy warned al-Qaeda was planning new strikes against the US had wrongly used the transcript from an old video.
In an unusual two-paragraph "editor?s note" the newspaper, which suffered a major plagiarism scandal that led to the resignations of its top editors last year, noted that the story had quoted Ayman al-Zawahri as saying on the tape: "Bush, reinforce your security measures," and "The Islamic nation which sent you the New York and Washington brigades has taken the firm decision to send you successive brigades to sow death and aspire to paradise."
In fact, the New York Times said last night, the two quotations from Zawahri came from an earlier tape which was first broadcast on February 24.
The original article said the tape had been broadcast on the Arab television network Al Jazeera on Thursday.
But, the newspaper explained, the transcript of the February tape "was consulted in error", resulting in the article headlined ?In Tape, Top Aide to Bin Laden Vows New Strikes at US?.
The New York Times went on to note that "the recording issued this week did include other threats against Americans, warning that ?they will no longer be safe while their government does not stop committing its crimes against Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine?."
The tape is the latest in a series of audio or video tapes by the al-Qaeda leadership, but unlike some others did not include an appearance by bin Laden.
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Newspaper apologises over al-Qaeda gaffe
NICHOLAS CHRISTIAN
THE troubled New York Times last night apologised for another embarrassing gaffe after it admitted its page-one story on Friday about a new video in which Osama bin Laden?s top deputy warned al-Qaeda was planning new strikes against the US had wrongly used the transcript from an old video.
In an unusual two-paragraph "editor?s note" the newspaper, which suffered a major plagiarism scandal that led to the resignations of its top editors last year, noted that the story had quoted Ayman al-Zawahri as saying on the tape: "Bush, reinforce your security measures," and "The Islamic nation which sent you the New York and Washington brigades has taken the firm decision to send you successive brigades to sow death and aspire to paradise."
In fact, the New York Times said last night, the two quotations from Zawahri came from an earlier tape which was first broadcast on February 24.
The original article said the tape had been broadcast on the Arab television network Al Jazeera on Thursday.
But, the newspaper explained, the transcript of the February tape "was consulted in error", resulting in the article headlined ?In Tape, Top Aide to Bin Laden Vows New Strikes at US?.
The New York Times went on to note that "the recording issued this week did include other threats against Americans, warning that ?they will no longer be safe while their government does not stop committing its crimes against Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine?."
The tape is the latest in a series of audio or video tapes by the al-Qaeda leadership, but unlike some others did not include an appearance by bin Laden.
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