Bin Laden Tape: A Bush Administration FAKE? Have you read the text?>>>

[jackstraw45]

Some reasons my BS alarm has gone off:

1. The government used to "hold back" text of such messages for fear there were signals in the text...instead, I see a transcript in the LA Times today and here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4628932.stm

2. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x183367

3. The text seems more likely written by an NSA psyops staffer than a man in the Pakistan mountain regions...Bin Laden reads US poll numbers? Please....

I call shenanigans!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. You're about 24 hours behind the rest of us...

but you came to the same conclusion.

I call bullshit!

[jackstraw45]

6. Sorry - have a job & stuff...but i was with ya 24 hours ago in spirit!

Not at DU 24 hrs a day but glad you all were there posting away! :)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

7. lucky me... I got laid off

Lots of time on my hands to spend at DU.

[JeffR]

2. My theory:

Written by Chris Matthews, with a quick edit by Karl Rove to remove the too-obvious remarks about the preznit's "sunny nobility".

[jedr]

3. Our government has no credibility:

I never believed it from the start.....seems like the only time we hear from OBL is when the repubs need a boost in the polls....My son told me today that the BBC reading of the transcript makes no mention of a "Truce".....Think I'll turn off the T.V. and go back to reading for the winter.:shrug:

[TallahasseeGrannie]

4. I don't know if it is fake or not

but what I like is that Bin Laden has become a joke to many of us. Maybe even most.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Send us another tape.

And I don't think it is just because he hasn't hit us in four years. We've figured out in four years that there are worse things than losing buildings and 3000 citizens.

[biscotti]

5. Brian Lamb (sp?) of Cspan read parts of it from

the Washington Times (yuck) this morning. As he read,I was thinking this is from deep inside the bowls of Roves office. It sounded like a rough draft of a screen play from a B movie.

[meow2u3]

8. My BS detector was screaming!

I knew it was a fake from the word go. That voice was not that of OBL; OBL is much softer spoken.

[serryjw]

10. Would OBL say GOD

or would he say ALLAH??

[mandyky]

9. Has anyone besides American media translated it?

I think it is a CIA psyop excerise.

[Disturbed]

11. Former CIA should investigate if this tape is a fraud.

It sure as Hell seems that it is.