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09/12/2004:

"Newspaper apologises over al-Qaeda gaffe"

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."

Full Article : scotsman.com