US asked Qatar, Al-Jazeera not to air binLaden tape(when did * know ?)

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US diplomats in Qatar were given a copy of a videotape in which Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) threatens new attacks on the United States before it aired on Al-Jazeera television and unsuccessfully sought to prevent the network from broadcasting it, a senior State Department official said.


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"We got a copy of the tape a few hours before it aired," the official told AFP on condition of anonymity. "We asked them not to air it because we don't think they should give a platform to terrorists like this who call for the killing of innocents."


The official said the request for the Doha-based Al-Jazeera not to broadcast the tape was made to the Qatari government, the head of which, Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, is the main backer of the channel. Other Qatari officials sit on the Al-Jazeera board.


The official suggested that there may have been more to the tape than the 18-minutes aired by Al-Jazeera during which bin Laden threatened the United States with attacks similar to September 11, 2001 and accused US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) of "misleading" the American people.

more:http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1520&ncid=1520&e=5&u=/afp/20041029/pl_afp/qaeda_binladen_us_qatar_041029222528


So how far in advance do you think the * misadministration really had on the contents of the tape??

[saigon68]

1. The administration of the CHIMP are Nazi's like Goebbels

Thought control, control of the media.

Its too bad some Dems allow this horseshit to go on.

[underpants]

2. BIN LADEN IS STILL ALIVE!!! -the downside for W

that's why they wanted the release stalled. They wanted it in the middle of a Saturday news cycle.

The upside for W is that it could scare the bejeesus out of everyone and make them want to keep W in charge but it is probably to late for that.

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. I can't figure the reaction where people would flock to the chimp

Not anymore, not after all of this, no way.

[Hatalles]

5. I heard on the radio * heard about tape 4 hours before it aired.

[maddezmom]

6. well that's probably the reason Faux had an hour or 2 before all the other

cable channels.

[DeadManInc]

4. Bin Laden

They didn't want Bush's failure to get any publicity. It is funny that they never asked them not to show his videos before.

[Algorem]

7. Where's the unedited tape?Maybe Michael Moore could get it.

To get the tape of the pet goat reading fool,all he did was ask the school and they let him have it.

[kentuck]

8. Why didn't they want it shown ??

If it was good for Bush ??

[Say_What]

9. EXCERPTS FROM BIN LADENS SPEECH

Aljazeera is running excerpts from the speech. No wonder they want to censor it:

<clips>

..."As I watched the destroyed towers in Lebanon, it occurred to me punish the unjust the same way (and) to destroy towers in America so it could taste some of what we are tasting and to stop killing our children and women.

"We had no difficulty in dealing with Bush and his administration because they resemble the regimes in our countries, half of which are ruled by the military and the other half by the sons of kings ... They have a lot of pride, arrogance, greed and thievery.

"He (Bush) adopted despotism and the crushing of freedoms from Arab rulers and called it the Patriot Act under the guise of combating terrorism.....

..."It never occurred to us that the commander in chief of the American forces (Bush) would leave 50,000 citizens in the two towers to face those horrors alone at a time when they most needed him because he thought listening to a child discussing
her goat and its ramming was more important than the planes and their ramming of the skyscrapers. This had given us three times the time needed to carry out the operations, thanks be to God...

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8BAF429F-BADD-40E2-AD66-712FCF7D7A95.htm

[maddezmom]

10. * isn't deceiving all of us...

"I am surprised by you. Despite entering the fourth year after Sept. 11, Bush is still deceiving you and hiding the truth from you and therefore the reasons are still there to repeat what happened.

[Say_What]

12. Amazing when a former CIA operative trained by the US is more

credible than the pResident of the US. :think:

Sentence before that is interesting too:

We fought you because we are free and because we want freedom for our nation. When you squander our security we squander yours.

[cliss]

14. This is NOT an "ad" or an endorsement

for George Bush. usama Bin Laden's speech is scathing, direct. He insults the whole family.

"...Bush is still deceiving you". Does this sound like something Rove would condone? Hardly.

[Brundle_Fly]

15. I bet when they release it all

it gets much much worse.

If he was talking abour his usual pubk shit, they'd be the first to promote this tape, he must say or have some really telling information.

AlJazeera will probably dispense a little more every day until election.

[Brundle_Fly]

16. here's a little more...

Osama said the United States has dropped millions of tonnes of bombs on Iraqi children, just for the sake of replacing an old agent with a new one to plunder Iraqi oil wealth.

[Sinnerman]

11. BREAKING MSNBC... Karl Rove behind UBL Tape

This Fu**er must go down every single news station playing tape

[Nordic]

13. this is pure disinformation

the administration wanted to get Al Quaqua off the front pages.

And Halliburton.

Lo and behold, a Bin Laden tape!!!!

What timing!

Of course they're gonna SAY they didn't want it aired.

Plus that guy doesn't resemble Bin Laden at all