Anymore news on Andrea Mitchell's report that the OBL tape was edited??

[Roland99]

[charlyvi]

1. Details, please....

What did she say about tape being edited?

[Roland99]

2. It was posted up here yesterday...she had reported this on MSNBC

That, supposedly, Qatar gave the US a heads-up on the tape.

[charlyvi]

3. Thanks. n/t

[ellacott]

4. They did get advance notice

I heard it on the news this morning. It was either NBC or CBS. They said the Bush administration knew about the tape Friday morning. I'm thinking this is the reason Bush was talking about 9/11.

[Roland99]

5. But is there any proof it was edited? Anyone have the original video?

[AmerDem]

6. Last I heard, the white house had advance notice from Qatar

They operate and own Al-Jazeera. The white house tried to have Qatar hold back the release of the Bin Laden tape but Qatar refused. shrub and Rove were well aware of the tape from at least yesterday morning and Kerry knew noithing of it until the afternoon.

[bettyellen]

7. cnn.com said there was more, 20 min?, al jareeza said so

[pk_du]

9. Tape was 18 mins edited down to 5mins

...FAUXNews of all places just said the stuff taken out were about "Bush , his family and Iraq"....wow - wonder why our Guvmint wante that taken out.


link to follow

[pk_du]

11. Great link here that has 3 versions of english transcripts of the short

version.

http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=10600&cid=12&cname=The%20New%20War

[peacemeal]

8. MSNBC report gives a bit more info

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6363306/

"U.S. officials told NBC News that in parts of the tape not aired by Al-Jazeera, bin Laden acknowledges that the recent Afghan elections were not a success for him because “they came off with minimal violence.” And he admits that “aggressive Pakistani operations” in South Waziristan, where he is believed to be hiding, have hurt his operations."

Don't know that this is the true substance of the parts not shown - MSNBC is the only place I've found this info. But it is true that only part of the tape was shown on AJ - and it was also dated this past Sunday and came with English subtitles which were not shown.

[papau]

12. "with English subtitles"? - from Langley Studios? :-)

:-)

[JPace]

10. Any chance that the full tape will be aired before

the election?

[Roland99]

13. No one with a link to the full video?