At U.S. Request, Networks Agree to Edit Future bin Laden Tapes “…and abridge any future videotaped statements from

Osama bin Laden or his followers to remove language the

government considers inflammatory…Ari Fleischer, the White House spokesman, indicated in his news briefing yesterday that Ms. Rice was

primarily concerned that terrorists could be using the broadcasts to send coded messages to other

terrorists, but the network executives said in interviews that this was only a secondary consideration.” New York Times [name: “FMHreader”, password: “FMHreader”] Meanwhile. there are reports that Iomart, a Scottish company enlisted to aid the U.S. intelligence effort, has found messages that might be linked to bin Laden embedded inside other material on the web. “The company has been using sophisticated software to search the net for so-called steganography, the system of hiding messages inside electronic images and music files.

The system of encrypting text on the Internet is thought to be used by bin Laden and his associates as a means of communication, according to Iomart.

In recent weeks, Iomart experts have unearthed hundreds of files, some of them containing Arabic text and dates which have been passed on to investigators.” Ananova Of course, Iomart would have a vested in terest in inflating this finding, as it claims its software is the only package that can do the job. There are reports that this decoded information is a large part of the “proof they did not reveal” about al Qaeda’s responsibility for the attacks on 9-11. Sunday Times of London