Bin Laden reportedly to release tape by Sept. 11

**min0 lee** · 09-06-2007, 06:27 PM

Bin Laden to release video by 9/11 - International Terrorism - MSNBC.com

I really thought he was dead. Who knows..

Al-Qaida leader to address U.S. in first video in nearly 3 years, group says
The Associated Press
Updated: 7:16 p.m. ET Sept 6, 2007

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CAIRO, Egypt - Osama bin Laden plans a new video to be released in the coming days ahead of the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in what would be the first new images of the terror mastermind in nearly three years, al-Qaida's media arm announced Thursday.
The al-Qaida leader has not appeared in new video footage since Oct. 29, 2004, and he has not put out a new audiotape in more than a year.
One difference in his appearance was immediately obvious. The announcement had a still photo from the upcoming video, showing bin Laden addressing the camera, his beard fully black. In his past videos, bin Laden's beard was almost entirely gray with dark streaks.
Rita Katz, director of the SITE Institute, a Washington-based group that monitors terror messages, said bin Laden's beard appeared to have been dyed, a popular practice among Arab leaders.
"I think it works for their (al-Qaida's) benefit that he looks young, he looks healthy," Katz said.
The announcement and photo appeared in a banner advertisement on an Islamic militant Web site where al-Qaida's media arm, Al-Sahab, frequently posts messages.
"Soon, God willing, a videotape from the lion sheik Osama bin Laden, God preserve him," the advertisement read, signed by Al-Sahab. Such announcements are usually put out one to three days before a video is posted on the Web.
Video expected before 9/11
IntelCenter, an Alexandria, Va.-based group that monitors Islamic Web sites, said the video was expected within the next 72 hours, before the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 suicide hijacker attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
In bin Laden's last appearance, just before the U.S. presidential elections, he said America could avoid another 9/11 style attack if it stopped threatening Muslims.
Since then, there have been a number of audiotape messages from bin Laden. But there hasn't been one since July 2006, when he praised the slain al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and welcomed his successor.

During bin Laden’s silence, his deputy, Egyptian-born Ayman al-Zawahri, has frequently issued videos and audiotapes.
Al-Qaida has regularly produced new messages around the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. In 2006, al-Zawahri called on Muslims to attack the U.S. for jailing militant cleric Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman.
"They've always gone out of their way to commemorate it," said Ben Venzke, chief executive officer of IntelCenter.
Significant message?
But the fact that bin Laden is delivering the message is significant, he said. Whether the message will indicate a potential attack will depend on what bin Laden says.
"Historically the anniversary of 9/11 has never been drawn to attacks. It's drawn to video releases," Venzke said. Four months after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, al-Qaida began planning its message for the first anniversary, he said. This is the first notice of an anniversary message from al-Qaida this year, but Venzke said we're entering the window when the messages will start to appear.
In Washington, officials had no immediate comment on the announcement of an impending release.
One U.S. counterterrorism official agreed it would not be unusual or surprising for al-Qaida to mark the anniversary by releasing messages from bin Laden or another senior member of the group.
But without having seen the message and with only one still photo apparently available from the tape, the official could not speak to its importance. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of intelligence matters, said it was too early to determine any significance the tape might have.

**KelJu** · 09-06-2007, 06:42 PM

I didn't like his last album. Tupac totally owned Bin Laden on his last tape.

**BigDyl** · 09-06-2007, 08:06 PM

More media scare tactics. I wonder how this will lead up to the invasion of Iran. Anthrax scare, bomb threat scare, bin laden scare, and you now have a controled population. Lets suspend some more civil liberties while we're at it to protect ourselves.

**busyLivin** · 09-06-2007, 09:38 PM

Originally Posted by BigDyl

More media scare tactics. I wonder how this will lead up to the invasion of Iran. Anthrax scare, bomb threat scare, bin laden scare, and you now have a controled population. Lets suspend some more civil liberties while we're at it to protect ourselves.

Wow. You really are that gone, aren't you?

**maniclion** · 09-07-2007, 05:13 AM

Doesn't he know that tapes are out, and youtube is the way to go?

**tingnting** · 09-07-2007, 05:26 AM

Originally Posted by maniclion

Doesn't he know that tapes are out, and youtube is the way to go?

**I Are Baboon** · 09-07-2007, 06:04 AM

Could bin Laden be a BIGGER homo?

**tallcall** · 09-07-2007, 06:17 AM

Originally Posted by I Are Baboon

Could bin Laden be a BIGGER homo?

Yes if he reads the stickies!

**BigDyl** · 09-07-2007, 09:05 AM

Originally Posted by busyLivin

Wow. You really are that gone, aren't you?

No, just more aware and open minded than more sheeple.

**tingnting** · 09-07-2007, 09:28 AM

Have you seen the latest Bin-Laden video..?? He has cropped & dyed his beard..
He looks rather fetching actually..

**tallcall** · 09-07-2007, 12:40 PM

Originally Posted by BigDyl

No, just more aware and open minded than more sheeple.

I agree with you man, I think it's going to cause fear and panic - and that will definitely benefit some people politically.

**Big Smoothy** · 09-08-2007, 01:08 AM

I just read the transcripts.

This speech/video was very well crafted and planned.

Lots of new points, such as noting 2 US soldiers' view on Iraq, the election and re-election of GWB, the mortgage situation, taxes, and personal debt. Also a reference to Chomsky.

Osama seems to be carefully drafting and writing, and is directin his points towards the middle of US society.

**DOMS** · 09-08-2007, 08:08 AM

Originally Posted by tallcall

I agree with you man, I think it's going to cause fear and panic - and that will definitely benefit some people politically.

It will cause fear and panic? Why? He's released other tapes and most people just didn't care.

**BigDyl** · 09-08-2007, 09:01 AM

It's funny how Bin Laden writes with his right hands in videos. Funny because he's left handed.

**AKIRA** · 09-08-2007, 09:02 AM

Originally Posted by tallcall

I agree with you man, I think it's going to cause fear and panic - and that will definitely benefit some people politically.

Bingo.

When I read that a Bin Laden tape was "scheduled to be released..," I instantly became skeptic.

**BigDyl** · 09-08-2007, 09:05 AM

Originally Posted by BigDyl

It's funny how Bin Laden writes with his right hands in videos. Funny because he's left handed.

**AKIRA** · 09-08-2007, 09:10 AM

Even though I sound doubtful, I find it humorous that people say its fake. It reminds me of the quote that everyone remembered from The Usual Suspects.

Of course, that would be one helluva ego killer that the people you threaten dont even think you exist.

**Little Wing** · 09-08-2007, 09:43 AM

i was shocked and sad on 9/11 but scared? not at all. i think most Americans feel untouchable.

**BigDyl** · 09-08-2007, 11:55 AM

Originally Posted by AKIRA

Even though I sound doubtful, I find it humorous that people say its fake. It reminds me of the quote that everyone remembered from The Usual Suspects.

Of course, that would be one helluva ego killer that the people you threaten dont even think you exist.

Just because some people believe it's fake, doesn't mean he doesn't exist. Besides the hand thing, if you compare any photo's of him to that tape it doesn't look like him.

**Big Smoothy** · 09-08-2007, 12:09 PM

It's possible, not certain,

That an American advised and drafted parts of the speech.

The speech/video is only propaganda - just like GWB's propaganda.

Same, same.

But some good points were noted as I said before: taxes, mortgage mess, Iraq, Chomsky etc.

Remember: more people have been killed because of Iraq than because of 9/11.

Who are the victims?

A few Americans yes.

But mostly Iraqis.

As for the American that may have wrote parts of the speech or contributed to it.

I like him.

Go Adam.

**busyLivin** · 09-08-2007, 12:53 PM

Originally Posted by BigDyl

No, just more aware and open minded than more sheeple.

Call it what you will, but you seriously have no idea what you are talking about.

**tallcall** · 09-08-2007, 01:13 PM

Originally Posted by busyLivin

Call it what you will, but you seriously have no idea what you are talking about.

...and the rest of us do?

**busyLivin** · 09-08-2007, 01:38 PM

Originally Posted by tallcall

...and the rest of us do?

maybe not, but we pretend better

**tallcall** · 09-08-2007, 05:27 PM

Originally Posted by busyLivin

maybe not, but we pretend better

...later on, in the land of make-believe...

**AKIRA** · 09-08-2007, 07:19 PM

Originally Posted by busyLivin

Call it what you will, but you seriously have no idea what you are talking about.

I dont like the guy, but Id say were eye to eye on this. Be skeptical.

**Big Smoothy** · 09-08-2007, 09:31 PM

Originally Posted by Little Wing

i was shocked and sad on 9/11 but scared? not at all. i think most Americans feel untouchable.

The deaths were horrible, of course.

But let's look at the numbers.

Population of U.S. on 9/11: about 298 million

Number of deaths: about 3,000

What percentage is that (let's get out our calculators).

3,000 dead is nothing. Of course if its a family member or friends it's terrible. But looking at the overall numbers, the Americans have made way too much drama out of 9/11.

The September 11 attacks were symbolic:

military - pentagon

WTC - financial/economic

other target - political

**DOMS** · 09-08-2007, 09:56 PM

Originally Posted by Big Smoothy

3,000 dead is nothing. Of course if its a family member or friends it's terrible. But looking at the overall numbers, the Americans have made way too much drama out of 9/11.

The distinction being that the dead soldiers are just that, soldiers in a war. The people that died in the WTC were innocent men, women, and children who were just going to work (or brought to a nursery).

But, in any case, feel free to fuck off and die.

**soxmuscle** · 09-09-2007, 01:29 PM

Bin Laden needs to get himself a functional video camera and get rid of the piece of shit he's been using for the last 5 years.

**BoneCrusher** · 09-09-2007, 02:10 PM

Originally Posted by Big Smoothy

The deaths were horrible, of course.

But let's look at the numbers.

Population of U.S. on 9/11: about 298 million

Number of deaths: about 3,000

What percentage is that (let's get out our calculators).

3,000 dead is nothing. Of course if its a family member or friends it's terrible. But looking at the overall numbers, the Americans have made way too much drama out of 9/11.

The September 11 attacks were symbolic:

military - pentagon

WTC - financial/economic

other target - political

It's when morons who try to simplify the attack on our way of life that 9/11 was that the issues the attack bring up get lost. 9/11 as we believe it to have been planned was not a successful attack. It failed. The major target as that plan was presented to the American public was not the twin towers it was our ability to function as a country. There was nothing symbolic about it.

**min0 lee** · 09-09-2007, 08:06 PM

They say it may not be him.

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