WASHINGTON, Sept. 7, 2007
U.S.: No Overt Threats In Osama Video
Security Official Tells CBS News Tape Has Recent References; Initial Analysis Suggests Speaker Is Bin Laden
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Play CBS Video Video Bin Laden's Back
U.S. officials believe the voice on the latest Osama Bin Laden video is real; it includes unspecific threats to the U.S. Bob Orr reports.
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Video Is Bin Laden In Pakistan?
David Martin reports that U.S. intelligence sources believe Osama Bin Laden is in an area of Pakistan where not even Pakistani troops are welcome.
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Video Bin Laden To Release New Video
U.S. officials are awaiting the release of a new Osama Bin Laden video message, which al Qaeda says will be released before the sixth anniversary of 9/11. Bob Orr reports.
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On the left, Osama bin Laden in a video broadcast on Oct. 29, 2004, by the Arab television station Al-Jazeera. On the right, bin Laden in a banner advertisement featured on Sept. 6, 2007, on an Islamic militant Web site where al Qaeda's media arm frequently posts messages. (AP Photo)
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In the video, bin Laden tells Americans they should convert to Islam if they want the war in Iraq to end. He lectures them on the failures of their leaders to stop the war in Iraq despite growing public opposition in the U.S.
"There are two solutions to stopping it. One is from our side, and it is to escalate the fighting and killing against you. This is our duty, and our brothers are carrying it out," bin Laden said.
"The second solution is from your side," he said. "I invite you to embrace Islam."
"It will also achieve your desire to stop the war as a consequence, because as soon as the warmongering owners of the major corporations realize that you have lost confidence in your democratic system and have begun to look for an alternative, and this alternative is Islam, they will run after you to please you and achieve what you want to steer you away from Islam," he said.
CBS News terrorism analyst Paul Kurtz says bin Laden is not just addressing Americans - he is also sending a signal to his sympathizers.
"He's alive and well and he's up to date on what's happening in the world," Kurtz said. "So he's not necessarily living in some cave without broadband; he's connected, he knows what's going on."
Intelligence analysts are still looking at the video image to determine if the speaker is Osama bin Laden, but a U.S. intelligence official says an initial technical analysis suggests the voice on the tape is that of bin Laden, reports CBS News correspondent Bob Orr.
According to the U.S. official, a transcript of the tape reveals the following:
Officials will not say how the government obtained the tape, but it may have been briefly posted this morning on a Jihadist Web site, reports Orr. That Web site since has crashed.
U.S. officials said they do not know when, or if, al Qaeda will release the tape. The officials brushed aside questions about whether the U.S. would preemptively put it out.
Al Qaeda's media arm had previously announced a new bin Laden video would be released ahead of the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. The video, if authentic, would be the first video from the terror chief in nearly three years.
On Thursday, the White House said that any new video from bin Laden would serve to highlight threats the West faces. Analysts noted that al Qaeda tends to mark the Sept. 11 anniversary with a slew of messages, and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told CBS News Friday afternoon there is no credible, imminent threat against the U.S.
Still, if the man in the video is bin Laden, his appearance would be significant. The al Qaeda leader has not appeared in new video footage since October 2004, and he has not put out a new audiotape in more than a year, his longest period without a message.
One difference in his appearance was immediately obvious. The announcement had a still photo from the coming video, showing bin Laden addressing the camera, his beard fully black. In his past videos, bin Laden's beard was almost entirely gray with dark streaks.
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See all 620 CommentsWhy are we in Iraq? There were no WMDs!
Posted by jh6379 at 09:31 AM : Sep 07, 2007"
I see you''re buying the lies too.
What a sad state we''re in...
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/06/341238.shtml?discuss
The leader of the Magic Arabs, Mohammed Atta, received $100,000 from the General who ran ISI. This general was breakfasting with Senator Graham of the Senate Intelligence Committee on the morning of 9-11 in Washington. Amazingly, this general is still on the loose, no time in the Guantanmo calaboose for him...
A minimum of seven of the Magic Arabs are still alive according to mainstream news agencies. This means that the FBI''s suspect list was wrong by at least these seven...but, we have no more proof that the others were guilty than the living ''suicide'' hijackers.
Mohammed, devout Islamist that he was, lived with a pink-haired cocktail waitress, loved his booze, jewelry and bar life...his little party even left a Koran at their watering hole--the ''Pink Pony'', if memory serves. His father claims that he is still alive...and, as he has never lied to me--as opposed to the Chimp and coterie of treasonous Neo-Scum dogs--I have no reason to doubt him.
http://www.brookings.edu/index/about.htm
Check out their info about themselves to see if you think I''m trying to put ''spin'' on you, ok. Please give me your opinion of the site once you have done so.
I encourage you to read their home page.
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/14/barnes-osama/
CBS reported that OBL got kidney treatment at a Pakistani military hospital on September 10, 2001. The Arab and Asian press reported him dead years ago.
Do you think US intelligence will get the fat guy who wore jewelry and used the wrong hand to write to play OBL in this new video?
Did you ever figure out who cut the WTC columns? Was it Osama''s Magic Elves?
http://www.npr.org/blogs/talk/2007/07/a_surge_of_optimism.html
The War Pig propaganda machine tried to paint O''Hanlon and Pollach from Brookings as ''independent'' when they came out to boost the surge...they supported the war from the beginning...a couple of sheep-dipped Neo-Scum.
I think the man is dead, from severe health problems he had.
Hah, maybe from fooling with too many WMD chemicals!
Anyway read quote and go to link story from CBS News.com
No WMD %u2013 well we sure did find the chemicals to make them, doesn%u2019t take a genius to figure this out!
Troops also found containers that held the chemicals.
Don''t forget the hundreds of people killed by Sudam with these WMD.
(CBS/AP) %u201CU.N. weapons inspectors said Thursday that vials of potentially hazardous chemical agents removed from Iraq more than a decade ago were discovered near the world body''s headquarters in New York.%u201D
%u201CUNMOVIC has 1,400 linear feet of files, and it took until Wednesday to find the inventory the number matched which indicated that the material was from Iraq''s main chemical weapons facility at Muthana, near Samarra.%u201D
Full Story link:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/30/world/main3221002.shtml?source=search_story
WHO CARES he will not be addressing me I can assure you, BUT WHY IS THIS MAN STILL ALIVE and obviously free with access to hair dye%u2026%u20261.5 Trillion dollars spent and he is still out there in a country being subsided by the Bush Administration with our tax dollars. Outrageous.
Bush on Iraq: ''We''re kicking ***''
"We''re kicking ***," Bush said to Vaile Tuesday, according the Herald, after the deputy prime minister inquired about his trip to Iraq.
The UN inspection team found none.
Bush found none. Here is a story with pictures from BBC regarding his serious search:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3570845.stm
Furthermore, Major Scott Ritter of the UN inspection team, said that leads from US intelligence as to where the WMDs were, were ''worse than useless''.
The Neo-Scum liars will continue to try and sell fear in the form of WMDs to the American people--many are backing Hillary...many in Jeb Bush''s machine are backing Romney. The Fool vote will split between the mainstream War Pig candidates just as it was in the last election, between Kerry and Bush.
Don''t worry that the war may be showing progress and will wind down next year.
There will be better subjects for the Demos to run on next year. They must get to work and quit relying on just the emotion of the war.
While it can be an effective tool for communicating, it does not in anyway meet the litmus test for reliable reporting, any more so than CBS comments will. In short, I could publish on the site that OBL is a god and he placed thermite in the WTC towers.
I would ask all that read this sort of ''scoop'' give it the reality test. Ask yourself, why hasn''t it hit the main stream media if it has been true, or at least had some influence on the main stream media, as even they have been known to get it wrong.
In my OPINION, to do otherwise and report it as fact, is telling me you either have an agenda, or you are just aren''t too discerning.
You''re correct that he has a large support system and that he''s hiding in a mountainous area the size of Texas. The same could''ve been said when Clinton was looking for him and yet the right still say he did nothing to stop him and Bush is on the case 24/7.
We have reconnaissance which can follow a single individaul walking down the street from space and from aerial recon; that''s how we ided him at Tora Bora.
We were told that he got away at Tora Bora because we had contracted out his capture to the local milita. The C.I.A. agents onsite said we had him literally in our sites. Why couldn''t we continue to recon him right up to whatever cave he crawled into after crossing the Pakastan border?
The questions I have are how did we lose him and why did we take oue "eyes" off him?
IT WILL SAY SUPPORT THE SURGE IN IRAQ
ONLY BUSH AND HIS FAILED PLANS CAN SAVE US
IT WAS MADE AT ROVIAN PRODUCTION STUDIOS IN CRAWFORD TEXAS!
WANT SOME KOOL AID?
One would assume that some web site would post the video for the world at one time. 10 -1 Bush and his good-ol-boys are grearing up the scare tactics of past for 08.
I just don''t see Bush being given a pre-lease screening from Osama.
non muslims of the world unite... fight against the tyranny of the fascist nazi terrorslam imperialist empire of the darkside...
I was a fanatic...I know their thinking, says former radical Islamist
By blaming the Government for our actions, those who pushed this "Blair''s bombs" line did our propaganda work for us.
More important, they also helped to draw away any critical examination from the real engine of our violence: Islamic theology.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=465570&in_page_id=1770
Bless the Beasts and Children
Fascist nazi terrorslam kills every man woman and child in the village again%u2026 typical mo for terrorslam%u2026
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/bless-the-beasts-and-children.htm
Our Prophet commanded us to fight the kaafirs when we are able and to attack them in their homelands and to give them three choices before we enter their lands: either they become Muslim and be like us, sharing our rights and duties; or they pay the jizyah (poll tax) and feel themselves subdued; or they fight, in which case their wealth, women, children and homes become permissible as booty for the Muslims.
http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=13759&ln=eng&txt=before%20islam%20arabia%20pagan
the truth about fascist nazi terrorislam...
http://www.terrorismawareness.org/what-really-happened/
Don''t fret. A lot of these missives are really from islamic sympathizers. The more vile they get the more you can tell who they are. As far as scare tactics are concerned, well we can now pick and choose what we want. It''s either "Fear Mongering" over Al-Qaeda or Global Warming. Thanks to the libos we can now counterpoint Al Bor''es "the sky is falling" b.s.
Where did the government get the advance copy? Does Netflix have it on dvd yet?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden
How does a man''s beard go from grey to black? How does a mouth change shape?
I don''t believe for two seconds this is Osama bin Laden. Nor do I believe for two seconds anything my government tells me these days. Take all of this with several grains of salt.
Did you bother to click the video of the FOX news report--or, did you think it was just the usual grainy photos characteristic of the ''Best of bin Laden'' video series?
Why is Bin Laden still free and doing press releases? Why is he even alive? Where is he? Is he in Iraq? Why are we spending a trillion dollars and thousands of lives in Iraq? Why are we in Iraq?
Posted by crystalblue3 at 11:43 AM : Sep 07, 2007
Those 9/11 conspiracy theory people are mostly the same ones who still believe we never went to the moon. They must have "experimented" a little too much in the 1960''s OR they are the offspring of people who "experimented" a little too much in the 1960''s !!
As we await this farce to play out, let''s hope it is not part of a greater scheme...perhaps, a new false-flag operation against the American People by the regime...
I wonder if this
Neocons/conservatives:
Why are we spending a trillion dollars in Iraq when Bin Laden is still free to do press releases? Why is he free at all? Why is he even alive? Where is he? Why the hell are we in Iraq?
Neocons/conservatives:
Why are we spending a trillion dollars in Iraq when Bin Laden is still free to do press releases? Why is he free at all? Why is he even alive? Where is he? Why the hell are we in Iraq?
WHY IS THIS MAN ALIVE....and free and have access to hair dye. Billions spent and 6 years. Another terrible failure by the Bush Team.
And I care nothing about what this murderer Sect leader has to say to anyone other than shot me.
People like you are the ones with the unbelievable conspiracy theory.
Discredited Pentagon-affiliated IntelCenter to release another dubious tape right when Bush needs it most, Osama pops up hours after new Zogby poll shows Americans want new 9/11 investigation for second time running
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Friday, September 7, 2007
The U.S. government, via its closely affiliated IntelCenter front, is to release a new tape of Osama Bin Laden on the sixth anniversary of 9/11 in a desperate ploy to counter 9/11 truth and a new Zogby poll that again proves the majority of Americans are highly suspect of the official story.
A pre-released image shows an apparently older looking Bin Laden with a dyed dark brown beard, meaning the individual in the tape is either a body double or the terror master has been using Grecian Formula 16 in between his dashing from cave to cave across the mountainous Pakistani border region.
But whether you think it''s Bin Laden or not is really beside the point, if Bin Laden was dead it would be necessary to perpetuate the myth anyway, the thing to bear in mind here is that Osama has never failed in ensuring his tapes get released at the most politically opportune times - not for ''Al-Qaeda'' - but for the Neo-Cons and the Bush administration.
''independent'' does not mean ''left'' point of view only. It means the site does not take a single point of view, it looks at BOTH, and allows the reader to formulate their own OPINION.
This is something that would be well neigh impossible to get from someone that states things like, "The War Pig propaganda machine tried to paint O''Hanlon and Pollach from Brookings as ''independent'' when they came out to boost the surge...they supported the war from the beginning...a couple of sheep-dipped Neo-Scum." such as you have publicly done.
Now, to address your above ''OPINION'' itself. If you will go here, granted it is a blog of sorts, but the quote is footnoted, and you may go to the original published area, the Washington Post - hardly a right wing source of information - you will see for yourself that you are mistaken on Michael_O''Hanlon political beliefs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_O''Hanlon
In short, prinzowhales, as usual - you are long on opinion and short on facts. Go sell crazy somewhere else, we''re stocked up here with your other posts.
Has anyone else noticed that mudrose works 9-5, monday through friday? He''s clearly a paid GOP hack. Not a very intelligent one.
Anyone else find it odd that Osama seems to pop up when Bush needs him the most?
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/253784
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2007/070907_ladens_help.htm
Posted by Prinzowhales at 12:10 PM : Sep 07, 2007
I guess that the "conspiracy" you rant about includes most of the people in Manhatten on 9/11 that actually saw the jets WITH THEIR VERY OWN EYES hit the WTC''s. Its amazing how SO MANY people can keep your secret.
I have decided that I will now vote for ANY presidential Rep or Dem candidate that promises to provide free lithium and bed rest for all of you poor lefties and conspiracy theorists (one & the same, right?) that have survived the last 7 years of President Bush. Hold on....Help is coming for you!!!
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