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Airline sorry for Bin Laden boarding pass image

Thu Jun 3, 2010 9:32 AM EDT
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Associated Press
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LONDON — British Airways has apologized for a picture in a company magazine that showed a boarding pass in the name of Osama bin Laden.

The company said Thursday that the image of the fake boarding pass appeared in LHR News, a biweekly publication for British Airways employees at London Heathrow airport.

"A mistake was made and we are working to find out how this occurred. Apologies for the error," British Airways said in Twitter messages replying to Tweeters who raised the issue.

Bin Laden, who is thought to be hiding near the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, is accused of being behind the Sept. 11 attacks in the U.S., as well other terrorist acts.

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I would wager someone meant it as a joke and it got blown way out of proportion. I know when I'm preparing handouts and training materials I'll often include inside jokes as names, dates, and places just to amuse my coworkers. The clients are clueless about the jokes but my coworkers get a kick out of it and wonder what I'll work into the next set of training materials.

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