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"There has never been a fake bin Laden tape"
Why even say such a thing.
From
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/america_under_attack/bin_laden/framesource_tapes.html
"The first known videotape of Osama bin Laden referencing the Sept. 11 attacks surfaced on Oct. 7, 2001, the same day the U.S. and Britain started bombing Afghanistan.
Following the release of that tape, the U.S. government urged news organizations to be cautious when airing the terror mastermind's unedited statements, voicing concerns that he might use them to send coded messages to his fighters. Since then, portions of several tapes have been released by the Arabic television network Al-Jazeera, American television networks or the Pentagon; others have been mentioned by governments and the press but not made public."
This seems like a rather disparate group of sources. Bin Laden can reach out to all of these entities but cannot be found?
We constantly hear that the tapes have been "authenticated". Authenticated by whom. The CIA? The Pentagon? How about independent analysis. In what format are these tapes. How were they delivered. The more quesitons you ask the fishier this seems. CBS shows 35 tapes between 10/07/2001 and today. That's a lot. If the tape is in the form of a dvd, couldn't that be tracked? If it was placed on a computer then what's the IP address. See where I'm going here? It's one thing if there was one or two tapes. But 35 tapes over the span of 8 years? None of those 35 cases produced a good lead for the CIA or Pentagon sources to use to find this guy?
I forgot, we are supposed to trust them.
Well I like what Ronald Reagan used to say: trust but verify. In this case couldn't the audio and video be put to the test via an independent entity? Maybe someone like this http://www.paulekman.com could take a look. He is famous for reading facial expressions. I'm guessing that if he can do that he could make an estimate of whether or not a face presented on video is even really the correct face.
This whole Bin Laden tape thing needs to be looked into.
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