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

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 11:15:09 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Dave Wilson <gruntled@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: IP: RE: interview censored by U.S. State Dept., published in 
> the UK
> To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
>
> >From Reuters:
>
> ---The State Department had tried to persuade the
> government-funded broadcaster not to give Mullah Omar
> time on the air, on the grounds that U.S. taxpayers
> should not help the Taliban leader propagate his
> views.
>
> But the Voice of America went ahead anyway, wrapping
> the interview into a background piece which also
> included the voices of President Bush (news - web
> sites), a spokesman for the Afghan Northern Alliance
> and Islam specialist John Esposito.
>
> VOA spokesman Joe O'Connell said VOA had held the
> piece in the hope of obtaining an interview in Rome
> with the former king of Afghanistan, Mohammad Zahir
> Shah, but went ahead when that interview did not
> materialize.
>
> The broadcast, which translated Mullah Omar's Pashto
> into English, included about 150 words spoken by the
> fundamentalist Taliban leader, who has been protecting
> bin Laden.
>
>
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