WASHINGTON — The Arab television station Al-Jazeera is broadcasting a new tape from Al Qaeda (search) leader Usama bin Laden (search).
Multiple sources told FOX News that the 18-minute videotape is authentic and said its release was timed to coincide with Tuesday's presidential elections. Bin Laden makes reference to recent conflicts in Iraq and addresses the American people directly, sources said.
U.S. officials said the tape appears to have been made recently. Bin Laden is speaking from a lectern and he talks about threats to the United States and he says that President Bush will not protect the American people
Al-Jazeera said the tape deals with the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States and their consequences. While the announcer said the message was an audiotape, the station's Web site called it a video.
The Qatari-based channel did not say how it had received the tape nor how it had concluded that it was authentic.
The channel has previously received audio- and videotapes from people linked to Al Qaeda.
-taken from foxnews.com
its gonna be pretty big. MSNBC is saying he talks directly about Bush, Kerry, and the election.
Oct-29-2004 20:16
St_Andrew
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Originally posted by NiteKiD
its gonna be pretty big. MSNBC is saying he talks directly about Bush, Kerry, and the election.
thats interesting...
Oct-29-2004 20:22
JM
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heh.... of course he's gonna be talking shit about Bush. Bush is hampering his terrorist efforts, and instead of planning and executing, Osama is left to running and hiding... Hope someone gets a hold of him, and rips his balls off and then his eyeballs... I think that would be a good enough punishment for a start.
>JM<
Oct-29-2004 20:29
Spacey Orange
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If this is the bush's administration's 'october surprise', i'm totally unimpressed. This is the best that they can do?
We'll see whether this knocks off the missing ammo story off the headlines, because the Bush admin is handling that story poorly.
Maybe this is an attempt to do that? Constructive comments anyone?
CAIRO, Egypt - The Arab television station Al-Jazeera aired a video of Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) on Friday directly admitting for the first time that he carried out the Sept. 11 attacks and promising to outline "the best way to avoid another Manhattan."
It was the first footage of the al-Qaida leader to surface in more than a year. The video showed bin Laden in traditional white robes, a turban and a cloak reading from papers and standing in front of a plain, brown cloth background.
"We decided to destroy towers in America," bin Laden said.
He said the attack was carried out because "we are a free people ... and we want to regain the freedom of our nation."
He also accused President Bush (news - web sites) of "misleading" the American people three years since the 2001 suicide airline hijackings that hit the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon (news - web sites). http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm.../bin_laden_tape
No it was a missile!!! Explosives brought down the wtc!!! I'm an idiot!!!
Yea not really on topic but that conspiracy theory was a pet peeve of mine.
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Oct-29-2004 20:34
St_Andrew
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Originally posted by occrider
No it was a missile!!! Explosives brought down the wtc!!! I'm an idiot!!!
Yea not really on topic but that conspiracy theory was a pet peeve of mine.
well, obviously this tape is just fake and made by the bush administration and CIA
Oct-29-2004 20:40
NiteKiD
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Location: houston TX
"your security is not in the hands of Kerry or Bush or al-Qaida. Your security is in your own hands"
I doubt its anyones October surprise save Osamas.
Dishearteningly so far both campaigns have dismissed it as just terrorist propoganda.
Oct-29-2004 21:00
Izzy
Virtue & Vice
Registered: Apr 2001
Location: TX TA #5
quote:
Originally posted by St_Andrew
well, obviously this tape is just fake and made by the bush administration and CIA
hehe
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Oct-29-2004 21:02
St_Andrew
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"Despite entering the fourth year after 11 September, Bush is still deceiving you and hiding the truth from you and therefore the reasons are still there to repeat what happened," -- Osama
"He said the attacks on the US would have been less severe if President Bush had been more alert."
I've seen the video. Osama tells the American people to vote for Kerry. As a reward he will let himself be captured. That's what I caught from the video.