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| Binny and Ayman on vid | |
| 2003-09-10 | |
Arabic television al Jazeera showed on Wednesday what it said was a new videotape of al Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri walking in mountains. In an audio tape run with the pictures, a man said to be Bin Laden praised the September 11 attackers. The airing of the tape came on the eve of the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington, which were widely blamed on al Qaeda. "Whoever wants to be taught about loyalty and honesty should have known them (the attackers)...They were the most honest and the bravest," the voice said.
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| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #13 /yawn . ohh wait a minute . they wanna bump up support for being muppets . ooh thats what media for . nothing special in being capitalist pig dogs (my bad interpritation of Allah says so). Islam lets us all expresss ourselves ! STAND BEHIND ME WOMAN CANT YOU SEE I'M IN CONTROL HERE . How very pointless having another Al' Jaz video of hate . Propoganda rules the dumb and all else deal with it . Al'Jaz U aint airing anything which means a damn . Global peace is the obj , and U aint even touching clothe , in a few ( decades ) U will realise how much u screwed up , and dont flatter yourself |
| Posted by: new visitor 2003-9-11 7:12:33 PM |
| #12 thx Frank M. - I'd forgetten how funny that blog is ;-) Frank G |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-9-10 8:03:02 PM |
| #11 For comments from "allah" himself on the status of UBL, feel free to check out allahakbar.blogspot.com Infidels! I fatwa in you general direction. |
| Posted by: Frank Martin 2003-9-10 6:46:24 PM |
| #10 Color me unimpressed. Is he going to attack the world with videotapes now? |
| Posted by: g wiz 2003-9-10 5:32:54 PM |
| #9 Check out the hat - its one of those afghan skimmers, and the foliage- decidedly not made this summer. |
| Posted by: Frank Martin 2003-9-10 4:56:08 PM |
| #8 I'm pretty sure he does dye his hair and beard. I've seen older tapes were he's gray and then post 9/11 tapes where his hair is dark again... |
| Posted by: Damn_Proud_American 2003-9-10 4:17:14 PM |
| #7 Saw the tape several times, looks years old. Beard and face looked younger than the last confirmed video. al-J has been digging in their vaults again. |
| Posted by: Steve 2003-9-10 4:13:57 PM |
| #6 The guy needs to be holding up the day's Arabic paper for the video to be proof of his survival. Anyone can slap together a collage of scenes from previously filmed raw material. In a way, the appearance of this tape is good. Bin Laden has become the personification of terror. We almost don't want to get him before we clean up (i.e. kill or capture) the rest of his organization. His videos are also a wake-up call to the nation, reminding us of the continuing clear and present danger. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2003-9-10 3:53:08 PM |
| #5 Unless if he's using Hair Color for Men© for those hard to color beards and moustaches™, it's an old tape. His hairs much les gray in the tape |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-9-10 3:45:43 PM |
| #4 Good point... that footage could be years old. Why wouldn't he talk on it? I can't imagine a reasonable explanation other than he can't (ie dead or mute)... Can anyone think of a reason he wouldn't actually talk on the tape like he did in past tapes? |
| Posted by: Damn_Proud_American 2003-9-10 3:42:15 PM |
| #3 What, not a talkie? I knew the freaks dribble over the virtues of primitivism, but surely someone could have gulped hard and used a camera with a mike. Oh, what's that? He can't talk? Well, he could have held up a recent newspaper or something, or used sign language. He can't do that either? You mean he's...stupid? He had a great opportunity to prove to the world he's still alive, and he blew it?! Next you'll be telling me he's dead, or something! |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2003-9-10 3:29:01 PM |
| #2 9/11 is "widely blamed on al Qaeda??" Bin Laden claimed responsibility for the 9/11 attacks. Doesn't Reuters take him at his word? After all, he is a "freedom fighter." |
| Posted by: Mike 2003-9-10 3:14:30 PM |
| #1 Good news! I was afraid we weren't ever going to be able to confirm his death at Tora Bora... now, if this is confirmed to be a new tape, we'll get that chance somewhere else. |
| Posted by: snellenr 2003-9-10 3:07:03 PM |