Bin Laden Phone Leak Story an ‘Urban Myth’

December 22nd, 2005

President Bush asserted this week that the news media published a U.S. government leak in 1998 about Osama bin Laden’s use of a satellite phone, alerting the al Qaeda leader to government monitoring and prompting him to abandon the device. The story appears to be an urban myth, according to the Washington Post.

WP: File the Bin Laden Phone Leak Under ‘Urban Myths’

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