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| Full Osama tape tells the rest of the story |
| 2004-11-01 |
| October 31, 2004 -Osama bin Laden doesn't seem nearly so cocky in the unedited version of a videotape aired on al-Jazeera, complaining that the manhunt against him has hampered al Qaeda. Osama bin Laden's newest tape may have thrust him to the forefront of the presidential election, but what was not seen was the cave-dwelling terror lord talking about the setbacks al Qaeda has faced in recent months. Officials said that in the 18-minute long tape — of which only six minutes were aired on the al-Jazeera Arab television network in the Middle East on Friday — bin Laden bemoans the recent democratic elections in Afghanistan and the lack of violence involved with it. On the tape, bin Laden also says his terror organization has been hurt by the U.S. military's unrelenting manhunt for him and his cohorts on the Afghan-Pakistani border. A portion of the left-out footage includes a tirade aimed at President Bush and his father, former President George H.W. Bush, claiming the war in Iraq is purely over oil. The tape also sparked some concern that an attack aimed at disrupting Tuesday's election may be planned. But those who have seen the tape have said there was no specific information regarding an attack. |
| Posted by:Mrs. Davis |
| #17 Good Heavens RM! I'm going to have to TiVo an infomerical! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-11-01 7:08:23 PM |
| #16 Easy on the automatic transmission bike Shipman. I am IN that infomercial! (And no I did not get paid.) I am the one having trouble shifting on the ten speed. Tragically, this did not launch either my small screen or big screen career. |
| Posted by: remote man 2004-11-01 7:05:05 PM |
| #15 OBL lamenting our guys making life difficult for him. Tough shit. Bush said what he was going to do. He did what he said he was going to do. That is a pretty fair basis for leadership. Good reason to vote Bush in my mind. |
| Posted by: John Q. Citizen 2004-11-01 6:54:07 PM |
| #14 Unfortunately lex this would not be anything new. Notice how much coverage the MSM gave to those forged CBS documents while they entirely ignored as 'partisan' the eye-witness accounts of the swiftvets (from both parties). Hell they are still claiming (without any evidence) Bush missed a few national guard dates while entirely ignoring Kerry's giving aid and comfort to the enemy during time of war. The MSM months-on-month-long coverage of the prison scandal (which was already being investigated) which only involved a few malcontents for 2-3 nights while they entirely ignore the rapes and outright murders still occuring in western Sudan. Their absolute refusal to label the russian-school 'militants' as Islamic -- or even as 'terrorists' as well as their refusal to mention the cold blooded murder (and rape) of children and babies by these 'brave freedom fighters' (cough cough). I think the MSM has been spreading this shit for a long time and only now, with the blogsphere, are they being held to account. Didn't Cronkite (and friends) proclaim the Tet offensive a huge disaster for the US? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-11-01 6:41:42 PM |
| #13 If the MSM have access to the full tape and have refused to report on it-- esp the part about Afghanistan being such a huge success for us and a disaster for AQ-- then this is a major scandal, bigger than Rathergate. |
| Posted by: lex 2004-11-01 6:11:36 PM |
| #12 I think he's aiming for an info-mercial career. Likely cheap knives, perhaps the automatic transmission bike. Hard to say. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-11-01 6:01:43 PM |
| #11 My take too, steve. Sounds too western and very liberal-asshat... |
| Posted by: Ptah 2004-11-01 5:21:57 PM |
| #10 Osama testing his brand new explosive. |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-11-01 4:49:15 PM |
| #9 Read that one a couple of times and it must be the edited version as well. No mention of getting their asses kicked. It doesn't read like any of Binny's other speeches, it sounds like it was written by a westener for him. |
| Posted by: Steve 2004-11-01 3:02:24 PM |
| #8 al-Jazeera just posted a english translation of what they say is the full transcript here. Oh, and Binny sez Robert Fisk is neutral, so lay off him, ok? |
| Posted by: Steve 2004-11-01 2:54:27 PM |
| #7 *shakes head* sorry Jawa, that link only gives the broadcasted portion. I'm still looking for a full transcript myself. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2004-11-01 10:08:51 AM |
| #6 I would say that Al-Jitzz may have consulted the american MSM about which parts of the tape to broadcast and which to 'filter out' and the MSM said to leave out the anti-bush and 'we are getting out asses kicked' portions because they would draw people to Bush. Why else would they filter out just about everything which might draw people to Bush? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-11-01 9:35:41 AM |
| #5 http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SA1404 Don't know about the full transcript, but here's the link for the MEMRI article. |
| Posted by: jawa 2004-11-01 9:32:26 AM |
| #4 Did al J pass unedited copies of the tape on to other agencies? If not, you can't blame the rest of the MSM for not using the good-for-Bush bits, only al J. |
| Posted by: sKerry John 2004-11-01 8:40:29 AM |
| #3 Anybody know were we can see a transcript? |
| Posted by: raptor 2004-11-01 8:27:43 AM |
| #2 ODA - MSM. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2004-11-01 7:33:00 AM |
| #1 If this is true, why is it not bigger news and why is it not released in its entirety? It would be huge for Bush. |
| Posted by: Ol_Dirty_American 2004-11-01 2:47:09 AM |