bin Laden Sends Wrong Tape

In an embarrassing slip-up, Osama bin Laden, who for the past several years has been taunting Western governments' failure to locate him by sending taped messages to Arabic-language networks, last week released a video tape to al Jazeera that, while labeled 'Death to Israel, Death to America, Redux', actually contained all the episodes of 'Designing Women' from the 1989-90 season.

Apparently bin Laden quickly realized his mistake, for, just two days after giving the world a glimpse into the hilarious hijinks of a group of Atlanta ladies running a design firm, bin Laden sent another tape to al Jazeera, this time promising, "death to Israel, and death to America--except for that Annie Potts. Her spunky witticisms really make my tent feel less lonely on long Afghani evenings."