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India-Pakistan
Advani calls Osama 'Obama bin Laden'
2009-04-17
Osama became Obama for a few minutes for L K Advani at a press conference on Friday but an embarrassed BJP's prime ministerial candidate corrected himself in no time.

Reading out excerpts from the interim report of BJP's task force on black money, he mistakenly took the name of the US President instead of that of the international terror mastermind Osama Bin Laden.

"Illicit monies are the dirty outcome of modern capitalism. But after the 9/11 terror (attacks), the US realised that, not just the buccaneers in business but even Obama Bin Laden could also hide his funds in secret havens and use them to bomb the world," he said.

But within minutes, an aide passed on a chit to the BJP leader, after which he corrected himself, saying "I have been told that I have just made a mistake".
Posted by:john frum

#5   "I have been told that I have just made a mistake".

Lotsa folks starting to feel that way, Ima thinkin'.
Posted by: SteveS   2009-04-17 21:58  

#4  Mr. Advani don't feel bad, a lot of people have this problem.
Posted by: JohnQC   2009-04-17 18:11  

#3  Potato / Potatoe?
Posted by: Uncle Phester   2009-04-17 13:05  

#2  Obama is the Kenyan form of the Arabic Osama.
Posted by: 3dc   2009-04-17 11:59  

#1  Well, he is not half wrong. The Big O and Congress have done more to destroy the US economy than OBL ever dreamed that he could do himself.
Posted by: Alaska Paul in Nikolaevsk, AK   2009-04-17 11:48  

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