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| US skeptical of Afghan reports on new bin Laden tape |
| 2005-12-16 |
| U.S. officials are skeptical of a report on an Afghan news site about a new video showing Osama bin Laden. The story from Pajhwok Afghan News, dated Tuesday, describes a new 30-minute tape with a message from Taliban commander Mullah Dodallah and the al-Qaida leader, according to the IntelCenter, a U.S. government contractor that does work for intelligence agencies. A U.S. counterterrorism official, who spoke only on condition of anonymity in compliance with office policy, said the government could not confirm the tape's existence, but said officials are aware of the media report. U.S. authorities are viewing it skeptically, the official said. Bin Laden has not been heard from since a December 2004 audio statement. That is the longest stretch the terror leader has been publicly quiet since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The IntelCenter also released an analysis Thursday of a new video from the group run by al-Qaida in Iraq's leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The center said the 9-minute recording appears to be an effort to promote a new video about an April attack on Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, which has been in the middle of the controversy over the U.S. treatment of detainees. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #5 Is it "Weekend At Bernie's?" |
| Posted by: The Happy Fliegerabwehrkanonen 2005-12-16 14:41 |
| #4 I wonder if OBL has look alikes as Saddam had. Or maybe they are trying to find someone close enough to play the part. |
| Posted by: Jan 2005-12-16 12:32 |
| #3 He's Dead, Jim. |
| Posted by: doc 2005-12-16 09:09 |
| #2 The center said the 9-minute recording appears to be an effort to promote a new video about an April attack on Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, which has been in the middle of the controversy over the U.S. treatment of detainees. New from K-Tel and Time-Life Video. Operators are standing by! Also, nice swipe at Bush there...like Osama, Zawahiri & Co. give a rats' arse about the treatment of the detainees, other than their propaganda value. Jihadis are merely tools, and most of them are sent to Abu Ghraib with specific AQ training as to how to be a prisoner to maximize their propaganda value...stories of Koran flushing etc... |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2005-12-16 08:05 |
| #1 *snicker* the 9-minute recording appears to be an effort to promote a new video about an April attack on Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. The center said which has been in the middle of the controversy over the U.S. treatment of detainees this is funny on so many levels...not the first of which is the image of a little test tube of blood and bone matter, with a little face on it, speaking to the camera. And...as for the rest of it, it must really suck to be a George Soros-esque liberal, trying so hard to believe. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-12-16 06:06 |