Okay, you knew it was coming. The Osama video. Real or fake?

[NNN0LHI]

[Junkdrawer]

1. Scripted...and they even know who wrote the script...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1767428

[LibDemAlways]

2. The timing, the subject of "Osama's" rant,

the release of the thing to FAUX News.....pitiful attempt to scare the sheeple in advance of the Betray-us report.

[bluerum]

4. Well, you knew all along why they planned to release the Betraus propaganda

in September.

Interesting how they construct their project time lines around 9/11.

[acmavm]

3. Hmmm. Nukes flying around the country, the republican party going down,

losing ground faster every day, elections coming up and if the republicans lose there just might be some uncovering of some horrific criminal actions by those in power (more than we already know), bush** being laughed out of Austrailia for making an absolute buffoon out of himself in front of his only 'ally' that's left in the coalition of the 'willing, judges throwing out parts of the Patriot Act and declaring that they administration needs to turn over documents relative to the spying on American citizens, proof that the FBI went overboard and broke the law in their demands for records on suspected 'terraists'.

I'd be damned surprised if a video HADN'T popped up.

[MethuenProgressive]

5. How many times has this tread/poll been posted? 12? 20?

:boring:

[Just-plain-Kathy]

6. Bush wants his $50 billion and he wants it NOW!!!

:mad:

[slackmaster]

7. Other - Tape is the real deal, but our government SHOULD be making fakes

:nuke:

[blogslut]

8. I honestly can't say

I've seen it now on both LiveLeak and YouTube. Both require uploaders to compress the shit out of videos so the quality of the video is just crap. I wish I could see it from a source where the video quality is better so I could make a real assessment.

I will say, this guy, whoever he is, is not the man from the 2001 video - the one that shows bin Laden with the gray beard and the grayish clothing. That bin Laden was animated. He held his chin up when he spoke. He used his body and face much more expressively than this fellow in the new tape. With this new tape, I can't tell if the man is even looking into the camera, the damned thing is that fuzzy. Plus, in the new tape, the man is virtually motionless.

As I said, I just cannot say.

[Babsbrain]

13. Try these links

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CnDOm67O28
http://www.lauramansfield.com/obl_9907.rm

Play them side by side...you will see remarkable similarities..also compare the voices (totally different)

[Eurobabe]

9. Channeling Robin LEach: He's not real, he's fayyyyyyyyyke.

[Kahuna]

10. Real. I've always said that OBL and * are bestest buddies...

I think that bush gets his requests for OBL to make him videos through Musharref.

[Warpy]

11. OBL is forbidden by a religion he takes seriously to cut his beard

His religion also frowns on vanities like hair dye.

If this is OBL in the tape, it's a very old tape. His hair and beard show no signs of their former grey and his beard is much, much shorter---to the tune of about four inches.

If, by some miracle, this tape is proven to be genuine, I want the name and number of OBL's dermatologist. The man is a miracle worker.

[spoony]

15. His religion also frowns on murdering innocent people

Like any zealot, he simply ignores parts that he doesn't like.

[Warpy]

19. Yeah, but his own variety of zealotry allows the murder of infidels

but it takes that beard very, very seriously.

[Babsbrain]

12. Like Sally told Harry

fake, fake, fake, fake

It's funny that the last two bin Laden's videos were 'found' by lauramansfield.com. She is an employee of USAID, a known CIA organization. She is also an associate of Jeffrey Epstein, one of the swiftboaters and president of http://www.americastruthforum.com/ He is an associate of Rita Katz, the only person on the web saying that dying of beards is a popular practice of Arab leaders...something that is patently a lie.

Not a credible source to be 'finding' a recent bin laden tape.

[spoony]

14. Not sure/ Doesn't matter

If Osama was smart he wouldn't interrupt this administration's implosion. As ever, the threat is within.

[H2O Man]

16. Real.

Evidence of the dismal failures of the Bush-Cheney administration.

[Labors of Hercules]

17. Exactly. how's this supposed to help *?

I just don't get it... I see it and feel angry: "why the fuck's this guy still around?"
If it's a fake, then some idiots still think people are going to be scared.

[xchrom]

18. real. or rather as real as it needs to be.

al qaida is a real threat to people.

and bushco is a threat to the u.s.

and why, why, why hasn't bushco done something to get these guys? -- whoever they might be.

the tape's real message is the inability of bushco to apprehend these fucks.