
If al-Jazzera is make this up, they've got company
For example:
[link|http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2005/08/1718087.php|Indymedia] (you know, the guys whose servers were confiscated at the behest of the FBI and the Italian equivalent?)
[link|http://www.thedailystar.net/2005/08/06/d5080601096.htm|The Daily Star]
[link|http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_6-8-2005_pg1_1|The Daily Times (of Pakistan)]
To be fair, I'm not sure who all of these outfits are, but I do know Indymedia, and they tend not to just release others' news releases as their own. And the Daily Star (one or your tabloids?) uses the BBC as their byline.
jb4
shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT