My twitter today:
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The infamous ‘
Letter to America’ by Osama bin Laden written nearly two decades ago has again stirred a debate online amid the ongoing horrors of the war between Israel and Hamas militants. Leading British newspaper The Guardian, which had published the original letter in November 2002, has removed it from its website on Wednesday, November 15, after the letter went viral in the last few days.
Guardian readers are now witnessing a message on the website, which reads, “This page previously displayed a document containing, in translation, the full text of Osama bin Laden’s ‘Letter to the American people’, as reported in the Observer on Sunday 24 November 2002. The document, which was published here on the same day, was removed on 15 November 2023.”
The British daily removed the letter after several TikTok users started circulating the old letter with a section of them supporting some of the views of slain terrorist Osama bin Laden. Many did not completely disagree with Laden’s justification for the attacks on the World Trade Centre, in which he claimed that the attack was a retribution for the United States’ cold war era. The cold war era was meddling in the Middle East and Israel occupied Palestinian land and oppressed the Palestinian people for such long decades, he claimed.
A Guardian spokesperson told The Daily Beast via an email on Wednesday that the letter was being circulated without ‘original context’.
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The incendiary text was removed from the website of The Guardian after becoming a top-trending link
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