::Yawn:: Just another example of OBL whining up from whatever snake hole he hides in to say, "Hey guys...don't forget about me! C'mon...I'm not getting enough attention!" Must be pretty lonely not being able to show your face in public. As far as I am concerned, his neutralization is just as good as a life sentence. However....one day...we will nail him!

OBL should save his so-called messages for his therapist. He's one messed up individual who seems to attract similarly messed up losers to his "crusade". Whatta jerk. If he can't say anything nice, he should try not saying anything at all. Better yet, he should tell his followers to go home, take showers, and find real jobs.

why is it that they never link to these so-called terrorist web sites? are these make believe web sites or what?

If they are talking about it before it even gets released, there should be serious concern about the timing and possible event. Now is the perfect time for AQ to execute on any plan they may have prepared. If his goal is to ignite the Islamic world, with Israel's advance into Lebanon, a strike from Bin Laden and the events that would follow would surely start a regional war including whatever country is struck and its allies. We should have serious concern. Nostradamus predicted a destructive event for NYC in August, and he has been off on the years. I feel like this year is a high likelihood with Iran posting Aug 22 as the date it will respond to the UN. I believe Iran will respond with a nuclear test or a strike. Israel will respond to any destructive attack on it, with nuclear. This will change the scenario completely, send Pakistan into revolution, and send us towards WW3 a few years after a preliminary smaller war with Iran. Tough times ahead folks.

Markos

And you believe this crap right?

Maybe his message will voice for support for Hezbollah despite Zarqawi's outspoken antithesis of the group.

Also interesting that Saddam Hussein just relelased a message to the American people.

Oh my god...Someone still believes that these messages are from bin Laden..Give it up..Bin Laden is dead from kidney failure three years ago.(reported from pakistan and fox).I have had enough lying from media ..Wonder how much abc and other media is getting for printing this..I really thought, when orange alert swarm, swarm everytime bush wanted his polls to rise was proven false this crap would stop..I guess they think most of us are dumb..Well we are not..

if they know he about to send a mssg why dont they find him

Yes, and I'm sure everything he has to say will be constructive and helpful.

What websites are advertising that a message is comming?
Why is it that these websites are never named so that independant confirmation can be exercised.
Seems to me that OBL "appearances" are too convenient for those who wish to continue the US presence in the Middle East

does this guy have any other things to do in life... or is he lead just that boring of a pathetic life??? dude move on your old news... take up fishing or something your a joke

BIN LADEN IS DEAD!!!!!

Remember that when one of these audio tapes and very poor fake video tapes pop up at oh so convenient times. REMEMBER TO ASK YOURSELF......WHO BENEFITS?!?!?!?

You guys are hawking this like a premiere for one of your Fall shows. Who give a c**p - besides you guys - that this guy is coming out with a new message?

You think maybe you could see your way clear to being on OUR SIDE for a change????

Who cares? This guy is worthless.

ABC please do your own research and stop trying to scare the hell out of people with a dead guy. You know he's dead, so does Bush.

Stop dragging OBL out of the closet every time you need a boogie man to shill for more war. Or go fight it your damn selves...my family is tired of the misuse of our military.
News for the Media:
The Central Intelligence Agency has closed a unit that for a decade had the mission of hunting Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants, intelligence officials confirmed Monday. The unit, known as Alec Station, was disbanded late last year and its analysts reassigned within the C.I.A. Counterterrorist Center, the officials said. [New York Times 07/03/06]
Israel does not view bin Laden as a threat. [Janes]
Israeli sources said Israel and the United States assess that Bin Laden probably died in the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan in December. They said the emergence of new messages by Bin Laden are probably fabrications, Middle East Newsline reported. [World Tribune]

Notice how you always refer to OBL tapes as "alleged to be" I'm not laughing anymore, the ruse is over-no wonder your numbers are down...we tire of the myth you perpetrate.

If you want to get an overview of the war in the middle east and where it is going, read Genesis chapter 10, and the map of an NIV bible with an overlay of today's names of contris. Then read Ezekiel chapters 38 & 39 slowly. Then read the Drudge Report on the web with links to current events.

At least George Bush doesn't live in a hole in the ground as do Osma, Saddam, and and the leader in south Lebanon.

IntelCenter should be throughly investigated. My guess is they have some nefarious ties to the propaganda operations coming out of the Pentagon.

As for Brian Ross, he works for a network that has been described as a CIA disinformation outlet. This man should also be thoroughly investigated.

As for all of my fellow Americans who believe that these tapes are authentic, you're being lied to.

who cares?

Why not show a video? Because maybe, just maybe he is not around anymore. It is not difficult to fake a voice. If he were alive, videos out the wazzoo would be coming out used for propaganda. Of course the media never talks about that. That's not in their template.

If NSA can vacuum everything, what's the problem with:

A. Tracking the origin of the message;

B. Determining, before the hostilities broke out, what was going on with "external support" for Hezbollah?

I'm walking away with two adverse conclusions:

1. The NSA has no information about Iranian-Syrian direct support of Hezbollah, as the President has not mentioned this; rather, he simply pointed to what Syria (paraphrasing) "might" do to put pressure on Hezbollah; and

2. We're not getting a straight story why (apparently) Bin Laden is able to communicate, but nobody seems to be able to find how his words first enter the internet. Either he's alive and exists in physical space; or he is a ruse. The lack of a trace casts doubts about the excuses for failing to find him.

Who in the world cares what this murdering coward has to say? He hides in a cave while everyone else does his dirty work. That seems to be the trend with the so called "leaders" of islamic fascists groups.

Why would anyone wait for a message from a pathetic looser hiding in a cave? Bin Laden's day is over. He cowers, affraid of his own shadow. One day the cave will close and he will be forgotten like a childs nightmare.

Binny and his audio tapes.... why not show up on Larry King Live?

You don't exactly see Bush out there fighting on the front lines either.

He is in Iran folks !

Anybody know where I can find a Podcast version of Mr. Bin Laden's message?

Zzzzzzzz...

Bin Laden is Has Bin Laden. The cult of suicide only works for morons he and his ilk can find. At some point, he will run out of morons.

Uradumone, ever hear about Cheyneys 8 million dollar bunker under the VP mansion?

Guess all murdering cowards hide in bunkers....

BIN LADEN IS A WASHED UP HAS-BEEN. JUST LIKE LAST WEEKS DIRTY LAUNDRY. WHO CARES!

Some of you conspiracy theory nuts are really whacked. ABC is a CIA Disinformation outlet?? LOL, man, take off your little tinfoil hat!

OBL dead? How do you know? (queue the ominous music) Yeah, it's all one vast conspiracy. Well, I guess you feel it gives meaning to your pathetic existence....if the left weren't so scary they'd be funny...actually, they're a little of both....

Bin Laden is a has been. A toothless old lion hiding in a cave like a rat.

Honestly, who cares anymore?

I'm sorry, but if BL were dead and we could prove it, the Bushies would have been all over it with his popularity numbers forever dropping. I could see them sitting on that info for a bit, but that would just have too much PR value to delay for long. He's alive.

It's sickening how cheerfully the media announce another OBL message. Can you imagine the media announcing another Hitler message back in the 1940's? Today's media is nothing more than a propaganda machine for the enemy, and would like nothing more than for us to fail in Iraq and the war on terror. Shame on you ABC.

ABC... A bin Laden Company

since most people are sure this tape is a fabrication, like all the other ones, maybe you guys can hire dan rather( now that he has no job) to do a special on the source of the tapes. maybe mary mapes can produce it. i hear she's also looking for work.

Why don't we just print in news that Bin Laden is dead (Which he really is) and see what happens. Terroist groups would fall apart and even the economy would get better. Just try it, there's nothing to lose...

Well Bin Laden has another message coming out. Nice. what is he to say? Israel Bad! America Bad! tisk tisk. Last I knew from the news, more Arabs are being killed off by their own then either the Israelis or the Americans. What kind of leadership is that for the Muslim world??? Get a clue people, human beings move forward not backward. JUST READ YOUR HISTORY for a change. Thanks.

Who cares? Bin Laden is garbage and his verbage is not worth the air/tape it comes from. I'd rather hear his camel snort than hear from this dweeb.

Israel is falling.We witness an end of the US supported of the so called Israel.
It s the end of Israel

Ok, so here we are. The end of the world! Isn't it amazing. I mean why do we even bother to get up in the morning, right? Bin Laden wants to rule the world, so lets get on with God's plan. Lets nuke the entire planet, scorch it all, 'cept some back wash cave in Pakistan. We'll be done with all this left wing / right wing bullpucky, God's plan will have been acheived and old BL can have the smoking ruins for himself...I mean, if God's plan is to acheive world wide destruction, what in the hell are we waiting for. Let's execute the PLAN!!!!

What's to fear from a scrawny spoiled cowering chicken of a man who hasn't even the courage ore ingenuity to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that he exists, If he still exists... He's probably growing 3-inch long fingernails and obsessing over the arrangement of his collection of jars of his own urine samples.

Dead or alive,... my bet is one of his sons or relatives is reading his material and at this time the Taliban and Al Queda are still looking for physical imposter to propagate the myth that Osama is invincible.

This message is a response to Markos. Read the scripture, not Nostradomus. WWIII is far from happening as so many are predicting now. Israel will go into Lebanon to get rid of the terrorists, and Lebanon will fight along side those terrorists and be eliminated themselves. If Syria goes into Lebanon, then Israel will go into Damascus and for a second time, the Baath Party will be eliminated. Iran does not have the capability to launch a missile at NYC, nor does it intend to do so because of the consequences. UBL is the past and is in hidding. Pakistan will not fall as you have predicted because India won't let it. Nostradamus has been wrong in the past as he recently predicted a devastistating Earhquake in So. Cal. which never materialized, among other things. He also predicted that Spain would win the World Cup this year, and look what happened. Quit predicting doom and try to be happy.

At the top of your article it reads "from our sources", I guess that says it all and once again reinforces your support for Islamic fascists and the demise of this great country. Why don't you guys run an article on the greatness of America (USA for those of you who now believe you are part of the America's) or a story about great Americans once in a while rather than portray US as being fat, uneducated, gluttons who are confused and easily intimidated by the rest of the world. I am at the point where I am listening to the radio rather than ingest another moment of your ABC television crap. It was only by mistake I came across this pathetic article. Your Fathers & the brave men who defended and still defend this country would & should be ashamed. AS ARE THE REST OF US OUT HERE IN THE GOOD OL USA YOU IDIOTS! WAKE UP!

Please quit lying to us, ABC.

Wow, I had no clue so many conspiracy theorist had latched on to the "bin Laden" is dead line. That little nugget would make its way to the mainstream media if it were known.

More propaganda.

Earlier, a U.S. politician was ranting about
leaks from Congress and The Pentagon.

Try The White House.

It's all part of Bush's superstitious evangelical drive to bring back Jesus. That's why these right-wingers are so pro-Israel.

As an educated progressive, my political opinions are all grounded in science, validated by the facts exactly as Nostradamus wrote them.

And how do they know this? Insider connections, perhaps?

Bin Laden is dead and Elvis is alive. Who cares? But for something really valuable, how about if our media just reported the news without the pathetic slants they've been putting on it for brownie points. Get over yourself. There are plenty of other sources of news with actual value. I'll go there.

haha I love the picture they use for this story - what is that a 1950's FBI dictaphone recording device there?

ANOTHER FAKE BIN LADEN TAPE PRESENTED BY THOSE WHO CARRIED OUT A 9/11 INSIDE JOB, IN ORDER TO RATCHET UP THE PR CAMPAIGN FOR A HIT ON IRAN IN ORDER TO SEIZE ITS OIL, BEFORE CHINA DOES.

IF TERRORISM IS SO REAL, WHY ARE U.S. BORDERS BEING LEFT WIDE OPEN?

WHY DO ALL OF THE TARGETS IN THE WAR ON TERROR ALSO HAVE OIL IN ABUNDANCE?

AND WHY HAS CHENEY DOWNPLAYED CALLS FOR A HIT ON NORTH KOREA, DESPITE THE THREAT IT POSES?

(BECAUSE NORTH KOREA HAS NO ENERGY RESERVES TO SEIZE, THATS WHY)

USE YOUR HEADS FOLKS.

"TERRORISM" IS A WEAPON OF MASS DECEPTION.

So they have their own production studio now? We need to blow it up. Along with anything else that has anything to with Al Queda or any other terrorist group.

Dids, I'll let you be wolverine.

The best part about these radical Muslims is that hate Americans, and if you ask them why they don't even know why, it is something they are taught from birth, and do not know any better. Just like people born to parents who belong to racist organizations.

If you would ask these people why they hate they just give you the program answer they have been taught to say since they could walk and talk.

So how do you compromise or negotiate with igronant people who cannot even give you a thought of there own why they hate.

Bin Laden is dead or never even existed. It is a ploy by our government to try to recreate the patriotism and 'rallying behind your president' that was experienced after 9/11 (which is a whole other government conspiracy in itself).

When is the USA going to stop asking why these fanatics hate us so much, and realize that they really do, that it is a religious war, and that we need to claim our belief that it is and fight it as such. Yes it is World War III, and the most important war we will ever fight! This is not Bush's war, this is the a war to determine if the free world will continue to exist, or whether the Muslim religion will crush freedom as we know it. People want to put nation boundaries on our enemies. Our enemies know no boundaries, go where they need to go, do whatever they have to do to spread terror and win over our weak resolve. We have been too fat and happy for too long. Now we can "pinch ourselves and squeal, and know that it's for real" and realize the ship is arriving at our shores!

Nostradomus has made a "recent prediction"? I guess if you consider the 1500's recent...

I just read all of your comments and I agree with about 90% of them. Bin Laden is without a shred of doubt in my mind, DEAD. Why was his modus operandi always a video taped message prior to the bombings in Tora Bora in December of 2001 (where we have confirmed he was hiding), and yet ever since then his messages are always audio tape? Don't you wonder that question yourself, naysayers?

It's a hell of a lot easier to impersonate someone on audio tape than it is to do so on video.

Fact is, ABC and the rest of the mainstream media are just a tool that the terrorists love to exploit. ABC does not care about America. All they care about is making the United States look bad. They are part of the Blame-America-First crowd. Anytime there is any problem in the world, their first and only reaction is to blame America first.

This is an independent writing this. I'm no republican nor democrat. I just hate the media and their dispicable agenda.

It's time for another episode of Two Minutes Hate!

(Note: do a Wikipedia search if you don't catch the reference)

Usama is dead. Hopefully, radical islam will follw.

husein husein

Israel is not going to fall just because you wish it. Oh, and by the way I am not Jewish.

If the islamic fascists, terrorists obl would spend as much money and effort helping their own people instead of spewing their hatred of other people and religions, murdering, and bombing the entire world would be a better place.

It wont be long before MSNBC provides trailers and teasers for his productions,strictly commercial of course.

Wow, the Bush supporters here consider the OLB tapes to be some sort of left-wing plot because we "hate" America so much?
[example from posts here: "What's to fear from a scrawny spoiled cowering chicken of a man who hasn't even the courage or ingenuity to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that he exists, If he still exists..."]
FACT: The Bush administration itself has authenticated every single OBL tape!
Now THAT'S some successful brainwashing.

OBL officially declared WAR on the United States of America in 1998. George W. Bush arrogantly promised the world publicly that he would get him dead or alive and has failed miserably.

And y'all think OBL is the one with no credibility?
I sure wish that was the view of the world outside of Bushville. Then maybe I wouldn't feel quite so humiliated by the incompetent cowboy who's been in charge since 9/11.

OBL may not be dead but he is most certainly an American asset, just like Emmanuel Goldstein in Orwell's 1984. False-Flag Terror = Easy Dictatorship. 9/11 was an inside job.

While in Europe, I viewed a US-produced documentary called bin Laden's Escape that showed how the US lost bin Laden, and posited he is actually holed up in Mecca, and that is why no one can touch him.

Top intelligence sources were interviewed, along with Peter Bergin, Robert Bauer and the rest.

Has that aired in the States?

Could it be more obvious that bin Laden is dead and being used (by both sides) as a figurehead for propaganda?

Now if Fox says bin Laden is dead and then later broadcasts his statements, what kind of necrophilia is that? Is Tony Snow still channeling Ronald Reagan? New news flash: Send Limbaugh, Annie Coulter, Sean Hannity, and Old O'Reilly over to cover the Israel, Iraq, Lebanon, from those respective countries. The name of the mission would of course be The Random Chicken Dance.

Wow, I had no clue so many conspiracy theorist had latched on to the "bin Laden" is dead line. That little nugget would make its way to the mainstream media if it were known.
Posted by: Wow | Jul 21, 2006 1:30:18 PM

Show me a video post 9-11 besides that awful grainy November "confession" tape with the shorter, chubby right-handed bin Laden.

Why so many "who cares" responses?

Isn't this the guy who is supposed to be responsible for that tragedy of tragedies-- 9/11? So now we just forget about that?

As far as whether he is dead or not-- it has been reported a few times, but never fully verified. My bet is that he is dead and that someone is impersonating him. He's a great source of propaganda.

But the more he speaks, it leaves that glaring question: why hasn't the US nailed him yet? it's been five years since 9/11. Since when do we forgive mass murderers?

My cave is getting in a sorry mess. Would UBL give us some advice on how to spiffy things up? I just want to do some stalagtite treatments and solve the dampness problem.

I also agree that this Intel Center should be investigated. They appear to know a bit too much.

why give BinOMYLaden any time on the air waves? Stop his avenues of communication..... *DUH* no brainer

I think you guys are thinking about this all wrong on the lack of videos coming from OBL thing. I've been meaning to put up all these pictures on my myspace page for ages, and I have tons of media. Similarly, OBL is probably just a little bit lazy these days to find the time to put his videos up on his buddy's website. Give him some time, he'll get out of this slump on day.

ABC, what are your sources???
Didn't the NYT announce the reassignment of the CIA agents who were after OBL three weeks ago??? Read the news and quit making it up, fellas!
So what are you going to show us with this new "Alleged Osama", huh? ...how about another still portrait with a voiceover and blah blah...like the last time...get real jobs.

If everyone in the media knows where he is, why don't they just tell the Marines so they can go and kill him?

I am not dead. I am alive and working in a 7-11 in Bergenfield NJ (4-12 shift).

These posting just go to show - we may be Americans, but some are really disturbed. How sad that some people go home and believe the delusions and conspiracies. You must operate very sad and lonely lives. Bin laden is alive, the world knows it. You are the few who don't and the reason is very evident - your passionate hatred for Bush blinds you to everything else.

To those who doubt there are terrorist websites, indeed they exist. I've been to several that I've gotten word of and actually downloaded videos of pleadings and at least two beheadings on one.
I strongly agree that it's sad the media doesn't give out current websites. Most don't last but a few weeks. If the media gave this information, it would cause these sites to overload as so many people would enjoy overloading and hacking such sites. If this were the rule of thumb, this method of dissemination would likely cease to exist.

Bin laden never existed. It's all lies by the bush admin.

Alas, his missives are not aimed at the whitebread crowd responding here. His message does resonate at the target audience.

We should all pause considering that it was OBL who got George Bush elected to his second term, with his well timed audio six days before election day exhorting that Americans do NOT vote for George Bush.

Me thinks he knows reverse psychology. If not for OBL we would have a Kerry White House today. The polls prove it.

I agree with Genghis:

Zzzzzzz.....

It seems absolutely rediculous that our stellar intellegance agencies can't find him, yet, somehow, we get beforehand knowledge that he is making another video in the mountain desolation of Afganistan! Someone must be able to follow the money right to the guy! How stupid do you think your readers are. Really,

I can tell you Bin Laden is a
type-1, insulin-dependent diabetic
and that means Humalog or Novalog
kept pretty cool at all times.
Only 10% of all diabetics are type
one, and it is much harder to
manage that type-2 because of the
need for fresh insulin 18 hours
per day. (My wife is has it, so
I feel like an expert just from
having "run interference" for her
inn this area. I really do NOT
see how the heck they do his
dialysis, either. Not very
frequently reported is that
EXTRA malady, brought about by
his diabetes. So a rational
person has to wonder why he
would still be alive. And yet
I think he is (gut instincts;
I read voraciously about the
Middle East; Political Science
major, et. al). Generally, I
am one of those "glass is half
FULL types". But I am haunted
by a feeling that something
devastating (as in nuclear) is
on the way. The U.S. government
knows more about black-market
portable "suitcase" nukes from
disgruntled Russian military
personnel (unpaid for months and
months and months...but with
hungry mouths to feed anyway)
than it tells us. Czechnian
rebels reportedly had some on
the market for the highest
bidder a couple of years back
and guess who (reportedly)
bought them? Bin Laden.
My best prediction---an absolute
catastrophe coming soon for the
U.S., probably on own soil.
This time it will NOT involve
jet airliners. Real mini nukes
or dirty bombs featuring spent
nuclear fuel rods (very easy to
obtain...child's work...) or
university / hospital research
waste, etc. Disperse it with
a conventional bomb all over a
downtown municipal area and you
can pretty much just rope-off
all those blocks for a l-o-n-g
time.

Man you people believe some weird stuff. Nostradamus? OBL is already dead? Cool the mystic/conspiracy theory talk. You confuse the issue. And don't rely on one or two news source for anything. I've worked in the media and I'm hear to tell you no one cares if what they report is accurate or not. They are more concerned with saying what their typical listeners/watchers want to hear.

How many of you are taking time from your job to write your comments? Wanna make USA great again? Get back to work, pay your taxes, raise your families and ignore the rest of the world. Focus your attention on your family, community, state and country. Don't waist your time on the lettuce heads at ABC or OBL, or Iran...

messages from OBL only surface when the Bush Regime needs to garner support for their latest upcoming terrorizing spree.

watch what happens in the days following the message

Bin Laden will announce that he will be running as Hillary Clintons VP IN 2008....I heard this from Cynthia McKinney and Cindy Sheehan.

Wow,

Myself, I had no clue that so many Americans had finally caught on to the fact that Bin Laden was already dead.

I'm actually quite impressed!

Good for you America!!