Advani's slip of tongue -- Osama became Obama

Mumbai, Apr 17 (PTI) Osama became Obama for a few
minutes for the prime ministerial candidate of India's main
opposition BJP, L K Advani at a press conference Friday but an
embarrassed Advani 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". PTI VT
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