So Now That Bid Laden Released His Tape, The Question I Have Is...

[THUNDER HANDS]

WHO THE F*CK WAS "AZAAM THE AMERICAN" WHO WAS ALL OVER TV LAST NIGHT????

Doesn't this prove that this guy was a fraud? Did Rove try to pull out his October Surprise too soon?

Who the hell was this guy?

Remember him, it was only YESTERDAY!

Something is major league fishy here. Why would TWO al queda tapes be released back-to-back?

Hmmm?

Anyone?

Hello media???

[TexasSissy]

1. I'm suspicious of these two tapes coming out practically simultaneously.

one right after the other. About the "American" Arabian terrorist. About how this OBL tape was obtained.

All this stuff sounds suspicious to me. We probably won't know for years.

[THUNDER HANDS]

4. two totally different messages

The one yesterday was all 'we're going to kill you' - OBL was 'we can work it out if you don't F with us'

fishy, very fishy.

[calmblueocean]

2. That tape was funny.

I read about it here, then saw it online, and burst out laughing.

Tonight, Mrs. Calmblueocean saw it for the first time, and she spontaneously burst out laughing, too. I hope Azzam makes more comedy tapes for America. He cracks me up.

[spanone]

3. Damn good question.

[THUNDER HANDS]

5. i'm kicking this before it falls off the page

I think, if I may say so, this is a damn important question.

If this guy is a fraud. WHO leaked it to ABC. WHY did Drudge run with it? And WHO was this guy?

Today's news makes yesterday's news irrelevant, so we must find out who was really behind yesterday's 'American terrorist' video.

[leftofthedial]

6. this is almost all phony 1984 stuff

Emanuel Goldstein -- fabricated "terrorist" enemy to be used primarily for propaganda purposes. Whenever the boogeyman gets less scary, it's time for another horrific "attack" or a new bad lieutenant.

[RevCheesehead]

8. Which, imho, lends credence to the OBL tape being REAL!

The fake tape comes out, media doesn't run with it, but rumors fly on the internet. OBL, reading on his laptop, decides it's time to let us know he is alive and well.

Truthfully, were any of you AFRAID of OBL's message? Please don't flame me - I truly abhor the man - but I thought I heard him say that the American people have an important choice to make re: our foreign policy and the arrogant new direction upon which we have embarked.

The OBL tape is more of an EMBARASSMENT to shrub than anything else.

[leftofthedial]

10. Here's what I know is real

the little bushturd is a lying, criminal, traitorous sack of shit responsible for tens or hundreds of thousands of deaths, the near collapse of our economy, the trashing of our Constitution and the pain and suffering of millions of my countrymen due to an illegal war, loss of jobs, no healthcare, etc.

I'm very suspicious of anything to do with OBL. He is definitely not exactly what he seems to be. Pawn? Player? Free agent? I don't know, but I don't trust these mystery tapes that show up every time the bushturd starts tanking.

I do believe this unequivocally hurts the bushturd,though. It highlights that the main boogeyman got away and just how incompetent the bushturd was on 9-11, so I welcome it.

[VOX]

7. Good question. Who the hell **is** he, anyway, and why 2 tapes?

Is it just a case of "more is more?"

Or did somebody get their signals crossed? :grr:

[THUNDER HANDS]

9. someone at ABC got taken

and now this 'EDITED' bin laden video comes out that the Bush Admin knew of YESTERDAY.

This STINKS to high heaven.

[Zen Democrat]

11. Interesting that the FBI "authenticated" Azzam, and the CIA didn't.

Looks like the FBI is whoring for Rove. You haven't heard any more about Azzam after the CIA said it couldn't authenticate.