Videos demystify the Osama bin Laden legend

One of the most revealing videos of Osama bin Laden released by the Pentagon today presents a startling image: A haggard-looking Osama bin Laden huddled in a blanket and ski cap, holding a remote control, watching television news coverage of himself.

The video shows bin Laden sitting alone in a drab, run-down room in front of an old TV connected by a bundle of bare cables to a satellite receiver.

CBS News correspondent Bob Orr reports that the government did not release the audio of the home movie, but the video obviously shows bin Laden watching a broadcast of one of al Qaeda's many terror messages. In one scene he appears with his deputy Ayman al Zawahiri, walking in the rugged mountains of Afghanistan. Another scene shows the burning towers of the World Trade Center.

The tape was found amidst the mountain of material recovered from bin Laden's lair. The computer disks, handwritten notes, and tapes have now convinced intelligence analysts that bin Laden - to the end - remained the center of his al Qaeda network.

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A senior intelligence official today called the compound an "active command and control center." There is clear evidence bin Laden was involved in mapping terror plans and giving tactical directions.

Bin Laden, it seems, was also obsessed with his public image.

Another video clip shows bin Laden apparently rehearsing a speech in front of an armoire, which officials believe was inside his compound.

Yet another video shows a practice session in front of wrinkled sheet that may have been draped to hide the background. In another clip, there's an al Qaeda "blooper" of sorts - bin Laden with a false start and a "take two."

Officials did find what seems to be at least one "finished"...yet unreleased bin Laden tape...in which the al Qaeda leader rails against America and capitalism. It was apparently recorded late last year...between October 9 and November 5.

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It's also clear bin Laden had a streak of vanity. In all of the rehearsal tapes and in the last videotaped message released in 2007, the terror mastermind appears with a dyed black beard. In the candid tape of his TV viewing session, bin Laden's beard was gray, the same color it was on Sunday when he was shot and killed by Navy Seals.

While the government has no plans, right now, to release any more of the evidence, a senior intelligence official said the US now has "unquestionable proof" that it was bin Laden who was killed.

A final analysis of DNA calculates the odds of it being anyone else at one in 11.8 quadrillion.

[HawkSpringsIsHere]

Did you see what a pigsty that place was??
Bin Laden had 3 wives in there. They couldn't keep it clean??? What'd they do all day??

[ibsteve2u]

lollll..."demystify"? A "legend"? Maybe to the young...the inexperienced...the armchair warriors who have never left the country.

A wealthy "conservative" is a wealthy "conservative" is a wealthy "conservative". Shave OBL and put him in a suit, and he would have fit right in with any American corporation's board of directors.

And frankly their respective philosophies are not very far apart, at all: Both types - corporate fanatic, or religious fanatic - insist that "the people" are to follow rules they define or face life-threatening consequences. Ranging from hunger, to death. Delivered by joblessness in a society without social safety nets, or by stoning or beheading...just variations of brutality...differing shades of evil.

They're all alike...only the veneers of ideology differ...some wear oak, some wear walnut...some wear unrestrained capitalism, some wear unrestrained religion.

[dontbelievenothing]

From Wikipedia.

"Conspiracy theory" was originally a neutral descriptor for any claim of civil, criminal, or political conspiracy.[1] However, it has become largely pejorative and used almost exclusively to refer to any fringe theory which explains a historical or current event as the result of a secret plot by conspirators ... "

Hmmm, so that would include a fantastic conspiracy story (theory) of organized cavemen wielding boxcutters and toenail clippers simultaneously comandeering 4 different full-sized airliners which were subsequently expertly flown directly into 3 different buildings using advanced piloting skills by pilots trained to fly small airplanes like Cessnas and subsequently causing a world-wide first-time-ever complete structural failure in 3 steel-framed buildings causing them to fall straight-down in collapse as if professionally demolished, including causing a complete structural failure and 4.5 second utter free-fall collapse of a building that wasn't even hit by an airliner, and includes not one but two full sized airliners that apparently vanished/vaporized entirely upon impact (for the first time in aviation history).

It's interesting that any other fantastic story which attempts to explain the obvious contradictions or the outright impossibilities in the bizaare official explanation of 911, such as vanishing 757's, or buildings falling as if demolished, is a whacky conspiracy theory worthy of complete denigration of any who offer such alternatives regardless of how much more likely they might be (within the realm of possibility) than the official fantastic story.

So if the FBI tells the story, no matter how unbelievable, even to the point of defying physics, that's believable, and any other theory that questions the official fantastic story is considered complete hogwash and the tellers of the alternative story are labeled conspiracy nuts bordering mental delusion for displaying a questionable grasp on reality?

What a visciously self-deluding, self-serving concoction of evasive mental gymnastics that entails, as folks force themselves to believe the official physics-defying whacky conspiracy theory is the only possible correct version.

But that would mean the Arcitects and Engineers for 911 Truth, over 1,000 actual trained architects and educated engineers that have signed a petition calling for a real investigation into 911, one that wouldn't completely omit or ignore the why of building #7 falling, or purposely leave out the live on-scene ground-recordings that citizens were forced to sue using the Freedom of Information Act to get released of hundreds of eye-witnesses recounting multiple bombs going off at ground level before the buildings collapsed, must all be college educated conspiracy nuts.

Because every American knows full well the same government that killed 58,000 American soldiers in Vietnam with the phony Gulf of Tonkin incident the government finally admitted never happened, and the same government that lied 962 times publicly about Iraq (wmd), would never lie about 911, ... because ... well because ... evil people only come from foreign countries for cripe sakes, everyone knows that!

[Toddwest]

Terrorists did 9/11, that should not be an issue at this point for intelligent people. Yes, your Government lies and is full of sh*t, that should not be an issue for intelligent people at this point either. What should be an issue is the people coming together to solve our problems, and realize that the government does not want this, THEY want to be in complete control, not the people, just look at how your political system operates....at this point every vote does not count, things are still done by delegation and electoral voting? What a serious racket. 1st, demand that to be changed to every single vote counting. You will see, they will not allow it, because they would not be able to control it, people who are not on the "in" would get elected to top offices. Think about it, then, think about how you're gonna make them change it, that's where the real muscle will come in. Conspiracies? whatever......."Orwellian" does not even begin to define the mess you have in your nation.

[mit26chell]

To everyone here who believes this ******** being put forward by the white house... youtube: Dr Steve Pieczenik. He's done several interviews since Bin Laden's 9th death last week, and you simply can't discount him as a conspiracy theorist. To the contrary, he's as insider as insider gets, and even wrote the manual on psychological warfare for the army.

[stn_sage]

I've seen a couple interviews with him, I believe he's telling the truth at great personal risk to himself, and anyone who TRULY wants to know the truth should see his interviews! He appears to be one of the very FEW with extensive govt service who is willing to tell the truth to the American public! For that, we all should be very grateful!
Get over there, and take a look!

[democracy5]

Please! He has NOTHING but speculation.

[Faith_In_Jesus]

Soul Stealer

Like commercials on TV aren't made to manipulate people. You are damn idiots if you believe a video will give you the feel of the real Ben Laden.

[Toddwest]

Since when does that bunch show their "leader" sitting around watching TV? About himself, looking like a homeless man? I am sure their great leader would not have allowed such unflattering footage to even exist, much less stick around. The Psyop majors should have realized releasing such footage stinks of nonsense, that and the immediate release of sensitive military intelligence about 10th anniversary 9/11 rail attacks the day after they start going over the evidence, that stinks of BS too, not that terrorists aren't always planning some atrocity, the fact that it's just a bit too much playing w/ minds too fast and loose. Very poor execution of that part of the operation, indeed. The raid was real, and they got him, all this other political manipulation stuff is for sheep. It is hard to understand why your government wants to believe everyone is so damned stupid. Should have just left the raid and the cold hard facts alone, they're digging their own hole now.

[-Skirt-]

I disagree with the premise, ""Videos demystify the Osama bin Laden legend""

Remember the images of Kevin Mitnick, released by the gov't, when he was 'at large'? The intel released by the gov't is carefully edited to achieve the goals of the intel community and the current administration, whomever it is.

We are being spoon fed snippets of intel, not the truth.

[Toddwest]

Yup. Exactly. People who have training in psychological warfare are seeing this stuff being added every day and going "ok, stop now. You've got a good thing, time to shut up now."

[finklestein]

AUDIO CLIP: Top Insider Prepared to Testify 911 Was False Flag Attack- Steve Pieczenik

http://blip.tv/file/5118363

Radio interview on May 3, 2011 this section at 8 minutes 20 seconds here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74dxhpsFrQc

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under three different administrations Steve R. Pieczenik says he is prepared to tell a federal grand jury the name of a top general who told him directly 9/11 was a false flag attack (inside job.) Also says Bin Laden has been "on ice" literally since 2001. Pieczenik served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under Nixon, Ford and Carter, while also working under Reagan and Bush senior, and still works as a consultant for the Department of Defense. Former US Navy Captain. Served as a senior policy planner under Secretaries Henry Kissinger, Cyrus Vance, George Schultz and James Baker and worked on George W. Bush's election campaign against Al Gore. Also is on Council on Foreign Relations, as well as a medical doctor and a best-selling author who works with Tom Clancy.

TRANSCRIPT: "The event of 911 was carried out for one purpose...to mobilize the American public to go to a war that they didn't need that they knew nothing about where we had pre-positioned soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq 6 to 9 months beforehand, ...it was based on Paul Wolfowitz's, Dick Cheney's, Bush junior, Steve Hadley, Elliot Abrams, in the White House, Khalazid, Dennis Ross who is still an envoy...Condoleeza Rice, all the people who were in the military particularly the Air Force generals who were involved, they can deny it any way they want I hae a whole list of names, they all know who they are, and the intel and CIA operatives who worked under SOLECs, Special Operations for Low Intensity Conflict were all involved...it was called a stand-down and false flag operation in order to mobilize the American public under the false pretense that we had been attacked by Al Qaeda and bin Laden which is an absolute unmitigated lie. I was even told by a general on the staff of Wolfowitz, I will go in front of a federal committee and swear on perjury who that name was so we can break this open...The issue of Osama bin Laden who had died...really brought out the issue of the great war and the great lie that was created for us to make sure we had some kind of commitment to a war that was not necessary in which so much blood and guts were shed for unnecessary reasons."

CREDENTIALS SEARCH:

UK Guardian on recent book on killing of Aldo Moro:

"An American envoy has claimed that he played a critical role in the fate of Aldo Moro, the former Italian prime minister who was murdered by terrorists in 1978. who as, an international crisis manager and hostage negotiator in the State Department, said that Moro had been "sacrificed" for the "stability" of Italy."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1581425/US-envoy-admits-role-in-Aldo-Moro-killing.html

He is also quoted in New York Times here:
http://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/08/us/seat-of-power-and-woe.html

Member listing at Council on Foreign Relations:
http://www.cfr.org/about/membership/roster.html?letter=P

Citations at National Military Intelligence Association:
http://www.nmia.org/?AIJ0410

ABC Television News Archive, 1986 segment on terrorism featuring Pieczenik as expert source:

http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/program.pl?ID=98903

May 3, 2011

BREAKING: "Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under three different administrations Steve R. Pieczenik says he is prepared to tell a federal grand jury the name of a top general who told him directly 9/11 was a false flag attack" "Bin Laden had already been "dead for months," and that the government was waiting for the most politically expedient time to roll out his corpse. Pieczenik would be in a position to know, having personally met Bin Laden and worked with him during the proxy war against the Soviets in Afghanistan back in the early 80?s" Top US government insider Dr. Steve R. Pieczenik, a man who held numerous different influential positions under three different Presidents and still works with the Defense Department, shockingly told The Alex Jones Show yesterday that Osama Bin Laden died in 2001 and that he was prepared to testify in front of a grand jury how a top general told him directly that 9/11 was a false flag inside job. Pieczenik cannot be dismissed as a "conspiracy theorist". He served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under three different administrations, Nixon, Ford and Carter, while also working under Reagan and Bush senior, and still works as a consultant for the Department of Defense. A former US Navy Captain, Pieczenik achieved two prestigious Harry C. Solomon Awards at the Harvard Medical School as he simultaneously completed a PhD at MIT...."

MORE
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/05/04/top-us-government-insider-bin-laden-died-in-2001-911-a-false-flag/

FULL INTERVIEW HERE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjtNiTm99e8

[shazbat34]

You should seek help. Soon.

[dontbelievenothing]

Yah its interesting when an irrefutable high-ranking Washington insider blows the lid right off the biggest con in American history.

[lilbear925]

US Intelligence is really looking for evidence in the videos that ties bin Laden to the Pakistani military or government. The CIA already knew he was in that house -- far from a palatial mansion, as the news reported it -- and was simply waiting to catch the Pakistani officials collaborating with bin Laden and his couriers. If those videos emerge, Pakistan will really have to put on a song and dance to explain their involvement.

[Toddwest]

and? what are you gonna do? First, cut off all the money, which since your government is broke and borrowing money to pay the interest of your debt (it's not theirs, it's YOURS), NO OTHER nation should be getting money at this time. If we still are giving Pakistan ANY money, people should be in the streets, but they won't be, cause you're weak.

[James93x]

Abu Dhabi devised this legend (or myth) of Osama Bin Laden to terrorize America. They encouraged the American Navy to execute Osama as the fuel price reached a national peak of $4 a gallon for gasoline or diesel.

[carol444]

TOP GOVERNMENT INSIDER: BIN LADEN DIED IN 2001, 9/11 A FALSE FLAG
http://www.infowars.com/top-us-government-insider-bin-laden-died-in-2001-911-a-false-fl

EXCERPT
"Dr. Pieczenik said that the decision to launch the hoax now was made because Obama had reached a low with plummeting approval ratings and the fact that the birther issue was blowing up in his face."

"Dismissing the government's account of the assassination of Bin Laden as a "sick joke" on the American people, Pieczenik said, "They are so desperate to make Obama viable, to negate the fact that he may not have been born here, any questions about his background, any irregularities about his background, to make him look assertive?.to re-elect this president so the American public can be duped once again."

"Pieczenik's assertion that Bin Laden died almost ten years ago is echoed by numerous intelligence professionals as well as heads of state across the world. Bin Laden, "Was used in the same way that 9/11 was used to mobilize the emotions and feelings of the American people in order to go to a war that had to be justified. He was directly told by a prominent general that 9/11 was a stand down and a false flag operation, and he is prepared to go to a grand jury to reveal the general's name."

"They ran the attacks," said Pieczenik, naming Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Stephen Hadley, Elliott Abrams, and Condoleezza Rice amongst others as having been directly involved. It was called a stand down, a false flag operation in order to mobilize the American public under false pretenses"

[shazbat34]

Are the nurses on the psych ward aware you are using their computer?

[furtiveadmirer]

carol444 & dr. pieczenik, a md-trained psychiatrist are CRITICAL THINKERS WHO THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX, unusual skills for a malevolent polarizing AMERICAN ELECTORATE! They are not easily influenced by the malevolent "public service" propaganda media, who report like parrots without investigation or challenge.

If one CRITICALLY examines the facts of this ruse, you will CONCLUDE THIS IS A PSYOPS event to mobilize the masses, similar to the SS in the 30's; A FALSE "grand slam", a HOAX, merely a diversion from reality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_Operations_(United_States)

OBAMA IS DESPERATE. HE IS AN IMPOSTER. HE IS IN BIG TROUBLE & in DANGER OF imminent EXPOSURE. HE HAS A SS# OF A DECEASED CONNECTICUT MAN AGE 17.& HAS USED 39 SS#'s over his short life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZlaIS5o9Vs

DESPERATE TIMES CALL FOR DESPERATE MEASURES.
CAVEAT EMPTOR: LET THE BUYER OF THIS FARCE BEWARE. PROPAGANDA SINKS SHIPS!
ALL THE PROOF WE NEED IS A THIRD PARTY AUTOPSY REPORT, WHICH DOESN'T EXIST. PHOTOS MEAN ZERO.

Bin Laden has been dead for years from Marfan Syndrome. He is merely a patsy, a useful propaganda tool to be called up, to mobilize AMERICANS, TO DIVERT ATTENTION.