Attention tinfoilers: Osama tape comes "days before...training exercise"

[DeepModem Mom]

LAT/AP: Analysts Pore Over Bin Laden Tape Clues
By LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer

....The tape came days before a planned weekend training exercise in which military aircraft are to conduct patrols over the nation's capital to intercept and divert planes that appear to pose a threat. But Michael Kucharek, a spokesman for the U.S. Northern Command, which is responsible for the defense of U.S. territory, said there have been no changes to the systematic air patrolling of U.S. airspace.

The threat on the bin Laden audio tape "means nothing to us," the spokesman said, adding that the training was planned well before the tape's release and was just the latest in a series of such exercises.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/ats-ap_top12jan20,0,3791058.story

[leftstreet]

1. Why does this sound so familiar......

:think:

[blossomstar]

2. Odd how bin Laden always comes up when Bushie needs him....

it's like he wants Bush to stay in office! Seriously, think about it. Right before the election in 2004... Bush is running on feeding people fear! Now, when there is actually talk of impeachment, Bush is again feeding the fear frenzy... then, here comes another tape! Yes siree, bin Laden is still out there and we need to illegally listen to American's phone calls to keep ya'll safe, etc. etc. etc! Just way to convenient for Bush.

[helderheid]

3. Oh great - just like 9/11 and the London attacks.

[drflodin]

4. Cheer Up

Bush tells us our economy is robust. I guess that's why the stock market tanked today, plus gas prices are rising again. What about all that oil we were supposed to steal, er, pump out of Iraq? Looks like Osama's remarks gave the greedmeisters another excuse to jack up the price of gas again...three more years of this torture? God help us all.:mad:

[mikelewis]

7. I wonder if there's been odd trading over the past few weeks.

If somethings going to go down, someone's going to try and make some money off of it.

[newyawker99]

13. Hi drflodin!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[DeepModem Mom]

14. Indeed, drflodin -- welcome to DU!

[mikelewis]

5. First Bin laden releases a message and then Al-Zawahri the next day...

Purported Tape of Al-Zawahri Posted on Web
"An audiotape from al-Qaida's second in command, Ayman al-Zawahri, was posted Friday on an Islamic Web site, but U.S. officials said the recording does not appear to have been made recently and may even date back years.

In the audiotape, al-Zawahri read a poem praising "martyrs of holy war" in
Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.

The purported al-Zawahri tape made no statement, and instead the voice on it was heard reading a long poem honoring "martyrs of jihad," or holy war."

Either they're trying to scare us or they're desperate.

[FreedomAngel82]

10. Did they announce this one on all the shows?

[mikelewis]

11. No, I caught it on Yahoo news as a headline...

I have no idea if CNN or Faux News has ran with this. I try not to waste too much time with them but I'll probably start Tivo'ing them 24 hours for a while just in case something heppens.

[SPKrazy]

6. Where's Rudy Giuliani?

I'd get out of town if he was visiting as terror attacks seem to follow him around.

[helderheid]

8. NO SHIT!!

[FreedomAngel82]

9. And before 9/11 weren't they doing NORAD

practices as well?

[DeepModem Mom]

15. I believe so, but there are people here who know much more...

about all of this than I do.

[DanCa]

12. DTA - Dont Trust the Administration. (nt)