IP: RE: interview censored by U.S. State Dept., published in the UK

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

> From: "D. Ian Hopper" <ihopper@ap.org>
> To: <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
>
> Yeah, it seems to be true, Dave. The Washington Post did a piece about it.
> The VOA did the piece, but Armitage nixed it.
>
> "We told the members of the board of broadcast governors that we didn't
> think it was appropriate for the Voice of America to be broadcasting the
> voice of the Taliban into Afghanistan and we didn't think it was consistent
> with their charter," State Department spokesman Richard A. Boucher said."
>
> ...
>
> '"Voice of America is not the Voice of Mullah Omar and not the Voice of the
> Taliban," a senior State Department official said. It would be inappropriate
> to spend taxpayers' money to broadcast the comments of the leader of the
> movement protecting the terrorists responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks, he
> said."
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10797-2001Sep22.html



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