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| Bin Laden Tape Is Old Material - French Expert |
| 2003-09-11 |
| A leading French terrorism expert cautioned Thursday against taking the latest Osama bin Laden video at face value, saying it was largely an edited collection of old footage and sound tracks that have already been aired. That’s what I thought. Wednesday, the Al Jazeera Arabic television station broadcast a tape of bin Laden and his right hand man Ayman al-Zawahri, in which the al Qaeda leader urges supporters to bury Americans in "the graveyard of Iraq." But Roland Jacquard, head of the Paris-based International Observatory on Terrorism, told French radio that the tape was above all a show of defiance on the eve of the September 11 anniversary by al Qaeda number two al-Zawahri. "We have to be extremely prudent about this message," Jacquard told Europe 1 radio. "Given that Osama bin Laden has not appeared on a video cassette for many months it’s pretty incomprehensible that in the only video cassette where he appears beside Ayman al-Zawahri he doesn’t speak, he just allows the latter to speak. Yup. "The voice of bin Laden we hear in the background, thanking the World Trade Center plane hijackers, is exactly the same message that was broadcast in a video cassette by Al Jazeera on 26 December 2001," he said. A oldie from the vault Al-Zawahri’s message was also old and had been broadcast by Dubai’s Al Arabiya network on August 3, Jacquard said. Another oldie "Above all (this is) a message from the organization’s number two, al-Zawahri, who wants to remind the world and the United States on September 11 that he’s still around," he added. "Hey, we’re still important!" Jacquard said some of the bin Laden pictures may even date from before the December 2001 offensive in Afghanistan’s Tora Bora mountains, where U.S. warplanes and their Afghan allies tried to wipe out bin Laden and his associates. Nevertheless, the latest al-Zawahri soundtrack was recent, as he refers to recent events. But the pictures were old, the French expert said. Other analysts have said the film appeared to have been taken in April or May. Of what year, 2000, 2001? I think that if this tape is the best that they can do, he’s long dead. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #19 "Deep Thoughts By Osama Bin Laden" Omg he has deep thoughts ? Just thought him as shallow as the other retards who think repression is a problem to be solved by murder . Lesson leant .. spent your inherited millions on being a stoopid fuckwit . If only I had millions to spend on my problems . First i would have a good diet and then feed the 5000 and pacify the situation blah blah blah , but i guess as he hadnt had a good stint in prison he wouldnt know that . |
| Posted by: new visitor 2003-9-11 7:01:17 PM |
| #18 The Frogs know its phoney because UBL is living with Chirac in Paris! |
| Posted by: Greg 2003-9-11 2:55:03 PM |
| #17 It has to be a oldie. Bin Laden would never go out in daylight, especially when we have satelites, planes, and menm on the ground looking for him. We probably have men in Pakistan searching, but we won't acknowledge it. |
| Posted by: Charles 2003-9-11 2:39:31 PM |
| #16 I saw the video last night. "Deep Thoughts By Osama Bin Laden". Looked like him and his buddy were trolling some Pakistani rest stop for "new friends". |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-9-11 2:33:38 PM |
| #15 Sweeps week in Islamostan? |
| Posted by: Steve 2003-9-11 2:25:30 PM |
| #14 Any bets that Al Jazeera pasted together the tape together themselves for a 'scoop'? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2003-9-11 1:58:42 PM |
| #13 Ladies and Gentlemen--- Live from the Frontier Provinces--- Its the Binny and Aymie Oldies But Goodies Show! |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-9-11 1:44:47 PM |
| #12 Anonymous, how could it a be a blow to US credibility when the US never claimed he was dead. |
| Posted by: Yank 2003-9-11 12:50:42 PM |
| #11 Incroyable, Anonymous! Even the BBC's given this a drubbing... |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2003-9-11 12:01:49 PM |
| #10 I think Jimi Hendricks has released 17 albums since he died (only one before he died). Maybe death was a good career move for OBL too. |
| Posted by: mhw 2003-9-11 12:01:08 PM |
| #9 Bomb-a-rama, I can assure that so far french continous news channels such as LCI are broadcasting the tape w/o doubting its authenticity, and that the left-leaning I télé commentary add this is a coup and yet an another damaging blow to the US credibility. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-9-11 11:42:38 AM |
| #8 In related news Elvis Presley has released a new tape. The tape shows Elvis is trim and young and healthy looking, indicating that he has been relaxing and clean of drugs since his 'death' in the 70s. Al Jazeera experts think he is in or around Cuba (because of the vintage age of the cars in the film), or in a small Nevada town (because of the desert backgrounds, and casinos). When asked for comment Donald Rumsfield indicated that it was likely that the footage was an outtake from the old movie Viva Las Vegas and that even if he was alive Elvis would be 68 years old by now. |
| Posted by: Yank 2003-9-11 11:38:16 AM |
| #7 A leading French terrorism expert cautioned Thursday against taking the latest Osama bin Laden video at face value, saying it was largely an edited collection of old footage and sound tracks that have already been aired. It was necessary for a "expert" to say this? Any Schmoe could have looked at the footage and realized that it was recycled. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-9-11 11:19:00 AM |
| #6 He can't afford to move an inch from the basement he's hiding in. He's pinned down and the next time he moves, it's over. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-9-11 10:56:18 AM |
| #5 Come on guys, we all know that they're both resting comfortably in a Paris suburb, in a villa owned by President Jockstrap. |
| Posted by: Paul 2003-9-11 10:39:17 AM |
| #4 "April or May" is probably based on the local conditions. Hard to say what year. |
| Posted by: Dishman 2003-9-11 10:31:44 AM |
| #3 ...Voice of the bleedin' obvious. Still, it's better than usual. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2003-9-11 10:31:28 AM |
| #2 The french are the voice of reason? |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-9-11 10:30:00 AM |
| #1 Is this a roundabout way of saying that maybe this nutjob is at room temperature somewhere in a cave in Tora Bora? |
| Posted by: SOG475 2003-9-11 10:27:17 AM |