FC: Muppets at war: Sesame Street's Bert in pro-Bin Laden poster

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Wed Oct 10 2001 - 08:23:57 PDT

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    The Bangladeshi poster:
    http://www.tctubantia.nl/CDA/regioportal/1%2c2078%2c1654__772741_%2c00.html
    http://harvard.pawlo.com/bangladesh.jpg
    http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/nm/20011009/wl/imdf09102001085522a.html
    
    The Bert-Osama clip art's origins:
    http://www.angelfire.com/de/cheatsbert/p3laden.html
    http://www.fractalcow.com/bert/bert.htm
    
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    http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,47450,00.html
    
       Osama Has a New Friend
       By Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
       7:18 a.m. Oct. 10, 2001 PDT
       
       WASHINGTON -- Evil Bert, meet Evil Osama.
       
       Right now, the two appear to be inseparable -- at least on ubiquitous
       posters carried by pro-Taliban protesters.
       
       Devotees of freak-humor websites will recall the infamous "Bert is
       Evil" page, a shrine to the gourd-like Sesame Street character, which
       offers compelling photographic evidence of the muppet consorting with
       Hitler, the KKK and, of course, Jerry Springer.
    
       Now, in a move that defies all rules of logic, a doctored photo
       showing Bert with the world's most-wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden,
       seems to have made its way into an anti-American Islamic protest in
       Bangladesh.
       
       Reuters photographs of a rally this week organized by
       Jaamiat-e-Talabaye Arabia, a radical Islamic organization, show that
       protesters created a pro-bin Laden sign out of a collage of photos
       they apparently lifted from Internet sites.
       
       But -- is it fate or coincidence? -- the sign featured a Bert muppet
       sitting on the left side of the man believed to be responsible for the
       bloodiest terrorist attack in U.S. history.
    
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