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'Bin Laden quitting terrorism'

Kristine Lowe

05 Aug 2006 — 1 min read

Bin Laden announces he is quitting terrorism and seeking asylum in the US, Fidel Castro denounces he is a dictator and Elvis says the rumours of his death are greatly exaggerated – all in 'exclusive' interviews with Björn Benkow, the Norwegian freelance journalist accused of fabricating interviews with notabilities such as Bill Gates, Michael Schumacher and Margaret Thatcher, on the last page of Finansavisen (The Norwegian Financial Daily) today.

I'm a bit doubtful of how this kind of spoof would stand legally, but Finansavisen has made a hilarious parody of Benkow (originally DN's scoop). As with Bill Gates, Finansavisen has Benkow meet Bin Laden on a flight where the terrorist confides to Benkow that his biggest dream is to take his family to the US, start from scratch, buy a house in the suburbia and get "a job with normal working hours". Elvis accuses CIA for announcing his death in order to cover up a big scandal in American politics and Castro says he is keeping his beard to show his defiance of the Americans.

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