He might have been motivated by the events of 1982 not at them time that it happened, but later when the U.S turned their back on him.
He never liked the CIA, and what do you mean CIA payroll, they just payed the Mujhaedin, who he was apart of. He just used the CIA the same way the CIA used him. I find the towers reasoning a little bit shallow too, but I guess it's the best metaphor he can do. And surendered, that interview was delivered to the taliban who say they passed it to Bin Laden. At that time the taliban wanted to give the picture that the Israelis did it, so they wouldn't have to take the blaim... It was just your usual Arab anti-semitism.
Okay, who's got the motive for cooking up a fake tape, while having the lack of skills to produce something that doesn't ring true to all our Islam and Arab experts here on SF? Who benefits from a continued American crusade in the ME? Besides the Israelis, that is.
Precisely. I seriously suspect this tape was produced through Mossad. Likud is in deep shit, and they know it. They believe that they need major escalation of conflict between the USA and Islamic radicals, by any means, because it is necessary for their survival.
If it wasn't Bin Laden someone from Al-Quaeda would come out and send a denial tape or just post it in their webpages. It's that simple.
I agree. I give him more credit, especially since he had ample time to come up with better. I can't resist answering this: (Although I know anti-semitism means anti-jews and not anti-semitism). The Arabs are semites. And the Taliban are not Arabs. :m:
If they cared. I remember reading something of how they didn't bother to reply. Since the (western) media was doing their job, scaring the ... out of their citizens. And basicaly doing the marketing for them. :m:
How nice of Mr Osama Bin Laden to help out Bush like that! See what I mean Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
BW"They don't need the tape for that." Hmmm. I really don't understand who would fake this tape in this way. On the other hand, the message is fake, because it does not correlate in terms of style and perspective in the least, as compared with past video speeches credibly attributed to OBL. The rhetoric in English sounds like English was the original source language. Most (especially early) translations include noticeable and typical stumbles in English idiom, because it is difficult to translate thoughtstreams between any significantly differing languages, without having a few vernacular miskeys, which can only be smoothed out after several rewrites (somewhat difficult to do with a news dispatch). Puzzling. We may be puzzling on this for a very long time. I just want an open fucking government and intellectually curious media, so that we don't have to look through this deliberate information clutter all the time. Our news is being spammed. We are witnessing "news" production, not necessarily by a news organizations, but by persons who are familiar with the industry and its tastes. How ironic that after we were encouraged to become worried about our national nuclear knowledge escaping into the world through acadaemia, Communications graduates went back to Riyadh or Haifa or Cairo or Beirut or Tehran started a new era in Political Media Event Production. Any political trojan horse can be fed to Americans if you know how to package it. Now who is it?
What 6-point poll lead? The polls are very variable and inaccurate at this point. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Presidential_Tracking_Poll.htm
The foreign media is now saying that the original video was almost fifteen minutes long, but we only get, what, a third of that? I WANT TO SEE THE ENTIRE TRANSCRIPT TRANSLATED BY SEVERAL INDEPENDENT AND REPUTABLE SOURCES. Anyway, regardless of who wins the election now, Osama can be seen and spun as a contributory factor. This can only help him, and harm us.
I still maintain that Osama's dead. But his cause is helped by the video. However, al-Qaeda did not produce this one. This Jim Johnson article expresses the frustration I feel while searching for a full English transcript. Searching... They're trying to explain this away: -Bin Laden tape obtained in Pakistan-MSNBC Searching... How Embarrassing: -Times of India Searching... This is what a complete, or relatively complete, transcript would look like. It also happens to be verified by Arab speakers and analysts as matching the original videotape. Here's another example. Also good background, Free Dictionary's summary of past videos/audios attributed to OBL. Alas, I have yet to find a complete transcript of "Osama's" latest release. Searching...
But is in our mutual personal interests (planetwide) to figure out exactly what the fuck is going on. And then agree (billions of connected people) on what that is exactly. And then Do Something about it. Say "You want a Revolution". Well, y'know...
it is impossible to "figure out what the fuck is going on" because you only know what they want you to know
(with apologies to Pink Floyd) Searching... to cut out the deadwood. Searching... to clean up the city. Searching- to follow the worms. Searching- to put on a black shirt. Searching- to weed out the weaklings. Searching... to smash in their windows And kick in their doors. Searching for the final solution To strengthen the strain. Searching to follow the worms. Searching to turn on the showers And fire the ovens. Searching for the queens and the coons and the reds and the jews. Searching to follow the worms. Would you like to see America Rule again, my friend? All you have to do is follow the worms. Would you like to send our colored cousins Home again, my friend? All you need to doogle is Gooogle the worms. Figuring this out is going to be a disgusting discovery in the depravity of a minority of humanity weilding unjustifiable power.
What I'm telling is that they are putting you on the wrong direction on purpose. If you want to find out what is going on you will have to think like them and think about what their motives are.
OK, let's think like them. They're losing money now, and are about to lose more. Some people are "on to them". Thinking like them will require a lot of paranoia, but I'll try if you will.