Bin Laden.... I always like his pics with his finger pointing upward, like he wants to give someone a prostate exam. Say, perhaps we could give him one with a MOAB.

Perhaps he took off his chest hair wig and used it for his beard.

I don't agree with those aliens on that picture of a cat, a dolphin, and a masked man named tommthen. Agreed, Bush owes me a telivison

How convenient a new video shows up now. This whole story is a lie and a bunch of contrived crap. Clarke is a puppet. Wake up people.

Maybe Americans should force this President (Bush) to follow our Forefathers' wishes, namely that we extricate ourselves from our involvement and meddling in the Mideast and pursue an isolationist course.

Stand firm against bin Laden, but stand firm for AMERICA'S interests, not Israels. Wouldn't that be a refreshing change?

Too bad Clinton didn't take him into custody when he had the chance.

Bin Laden had a kidney problem back in 2002 when he made his very last truly authentic video tape. I doubt very much if he could have checked himself into a local hospital without being noticed, then immediately captured by US Forces. If Bin Laden really were alive today, he would be in about the worse possible shape a person could be in. My guess is that he either died of kidney failure or died in a bombing raid at Tora Bora. On the other hand if he is alive and well, and soon to be captured by US Forces, I welcome the surprise.

Anybody who believes this crap has no brain whatsoever....and belongs in the Bush hall of Failure.

Wake UP!!!!!

Our intelligence officials must think that we are stupid...same back ground...same clothes....photo montage by our own government...on top of that look at the beard...good picture cropping...still same damn beard...our government is trying to make us believe this BS

Too bad Bush didn't have him killed when he had the chance.

blah blah

Way to go ABC! I am tired of U.S. media outlets willingly parroting enemy propaganda.

eh, this video looks like it will be another snore-fest. Personally, I think his early sh*t had a better beat...something you could dance to.

Seriously, can't someone just double-tap this nut in his turban?

People...that is NOT Bin Ladin. I have looked at this picture for about 15 minutes and I am telling you...it isn't him.

Why America is so quick to say that it is I find MORE interesting.

WOW....amazing, the last time we heard from him was in '04.....right before the elections..AND...once again...right before the elections!! Hmmm, coincidental??!!

Poor Abrac, he is tormented by visions of the Clintons in his sleep. Waking up crying in his mom's basement.

Who cares about the pathetic looser . . . OBL's in hiding . . . come on out and play with the big boys!

So far HarryHollis' is the only intelligent user comment. The other stuff sounds canned.

That's not OBL...that's a photoshop of Frank Zappa's face superimposed on a bin laden suit!

i agree with organ doner.. all this is BS. controversy lies. all made so that bush will have mo money... loose change 911 video watch it like its your torah!! holla

They attacked us.........remember? Meddling in Middle East affairs? We stayed isolated with Clinton so they bombed us

oops....I meant Organdoner543 and Brian, not HarryHollis.

"Wait for the big surprise!" they said. And then...

exactly.

These morons don't have the resources to pull off anything worth mentioning in this country. Though god knows they've wreaked havoc in Iraq... Maybe we need to be looking for Bin Laden in Ahmadinejad's (sp?) bedroom closet... or under the bed...

Ron, taking an isolationist course in this day and age is so incredibly naive. The world is a lot smaller place than it was when our forefathers were around!

Brian, you've watched too much TV, too many movies. Conspiracy therories ahve clearly taken you over. How, pretell, do you think the CIA or whoever could make a movie of OBL looking older and who will probably be talking about some current events to show it is indeed recent. You need to get out more.

Too bad Bush didn't take him into custody when he had the chance.

Ron L | Sep 7, 2007 9:47:34 AM

Israel doesn't need the US to stand strong for them. How quickly you forget how easily they handled three other opposing nations and of course Saddam's nuclear factory back in the 90s.

I would rather watch a comedy skit made by the guys from Australia - who drove through security with their fake motorcade... The OBL tape is a fake, made on a soundstage in Washington - more scary war propaganda from our DISHONEST, IMMORAL, CORRUPT excuse for a government! IMPEACH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

that isn't osama bin laden. osama bin laden has been dead for years. if you honestly think those two people in the pictures are the same, you are stupid.

Relax, it's just the new line from the makers of Grecian Formula for men

911 was an inside job. Wake up people.
ABC seems to be the go to network for this kind of propaganda. If there is a website with the video, why don't you give the URL? Impeach Cheney/Bush before they nuke Iran.

I am shocked that no one has collected on the 50 million dollar reward for Al Qaeda's No. 1. For 50 mill, I would turn my own parents in.

I feel that someone has not paid full attention to the face of this version of Bin Laden. Since I'm pushing 69 my face has aged a bit, so people think me a bit younger than I am; have to show my senior's card for discounts.

Although we have the same name, Brian, we hold differing ideas on what our forefathers desired. They did not want to be isolationist to the point of jeopardizing the Nation. They just did not want to get involved with European intrigues.

Maybe Bin Laden will also release the pentagon videos of the attack. He must be the only one with a copy. The pentagon has shown us nothing.

Organdoner543: And you owe yourself a trip back to school to learn how to spell.

You know if Clinton would have gotten him when he was basically handed to him on a silver platter from the people of Sudan, we would not have to worry about this IDIOT! Now I don't know what's worse, Bin Laden running lose or another Clinton becoming president???
I think another Clinton becoming president may be worse.

Nice, looks like that old game where you put the magnetic beard and hair on the picture of a really goofy looking bald guy. Kinda looking a little haggered the Binny, something keeping you up at night??

Too bad Reagan, Bush Sr. and Cheney armed this guy to the teeth as an ally in the 80's. When will silly republicans learn.

OK let him talk, now kill him.

Hey Ron L., The United States' first foreign war was prosecuted by Thomas Jefferson against Muslim fanatics in North Africa, who were capturing and enslaving European and American sailors. Learn some history, dumbass.

Too bad Bush didn't take him out, when he had the chance over the PAST SIX YEARS. Disgraceful and gutless.

There is no such thing as a course of isolation, so wake up. Appeasing an aggressor is only "hoping the crocadile eats you last".

Consider this: if this is the real Osama, doesn't his appearance prove that Bush has wasted two hundred billion dollars and a thousand American lives (plus 500,000+ Iraqi lives) without making us any safer from Osama? If the 2004 tape were genuine, wouldn't it prove that Bush is a total failure in his own "war on terror"?

So what does this recent 'tape' prove, the same result over and over is truly just a form of insanity. . .

I sure am glad he is using "Just For Men" on his beard.

Abrac... It's a shame that those of you in the "blame Clinton" brigade forgot what the Republican party was up to when Clinton wanted to go after Osama. --- I guess you forgot about Reagan, Bush Sr, etc. and how they helped build Al-Qaeda in the first place.. and how Bush Jr. couldn't defend us against the monster his father helped create. --- History is a great teacher, if you don't ignore big chunks of it for the sake of partisanship.

Why doesnt he have something showing the date?Thats because he is DEAD!Even kidnappers use photos showing sometime of time track!

"Too bad Clinton didn't take him into custody when he had the chance."

Too bad Bush hasn't even tried, despite his claims to the contrary. Remember dead or alive?

I think catching this sick pup should be our nation's No. 1 priority. Our entire gov't has let us down by not focusing on catching this guy. It is absolutely ridiculous that we have not found him yet.

It is interesting that SE Asia is now being asserted as a possible place where he is hiding. This makes a lot of sense to me. Bin Laden is not stupid and he must have known that we would attack Afghanistan after 9/11. My guess is that he took a slow boat to Indonesia or the Phillipines in late August or early September 2001. Another place he might be hiding is in on Afghanistan's border with China or Krygystan. Have a look at a map of Afghanistan. There is a funny place in the county's northeastern sector that extends into China. That part of China is very muslim and famous for being completely out of control, not unlike the frontier provinces in Pakistan.

Bottom line, we should have an Osama tax or trust fund where more U.S. dollars should be solely devoted to ending this guy's sick and twisted life.

It's funny how people just buy these stories that conveniently pop up in the news. Look at the picture, to me it looks like they used a very bad stand-in. Unfortunately the fact is, it doesn't really matter who this is; we know radical muslim extremists will be fueled even more again by OUR OWN news agencies showing this all over the web and tv. Thanks!

I agree with Ron L. When foreigners demand that America jump, the duty of America is to ask how high.

We are their vassals. We are their dhimmis. And they will treat us well, as long as we give them immediate and unquestioning obedience.

Bin Laden is "a self-made man who worships his creator," as John Bright might say. Bin Laden gets his heavily desired publicity in the USA mostly because our news media is anti-American, heavily socialist, and revels at the thought of publishing anything one can twist into an anti-President Bush statement, while carefully avoiding the fact that former President Clinton decided to let Bin Laden go free; meanwhile, not one person being offered by either of our two political parties is capable of running the country. The two party system has failed us. We need truly Independent candidates, and we need one or more of them now. Right now!

There are alot terrorists, but less anti-terrorist experts.

Let's see what happens during the next 72 hours from now.

Benny

If a tree falls in the woods but no one is around does it make a sound?

If Hillary gets elected, will OBL be at the inauguration as the Clinton's guest of honor?

Clinton tried to take him out... but the republicans were to worried who Clinton was sleeping with at the time. Here is a thought Republicans stop worrying about who is sleeping with who and deal with the terrorists! If we start looking into who the Republicans are sleeping with who knows what we will find.....

There is no way that clown is Bin Laden. Doesn't even look like him, unless he is very near death, stoned out of his gourd, and propped up by #2 so he can give his redundant diatribe of idiocy.

If you were keeping score between these two knuckleheads Bush would not only be losing by a big scoe but in the minor leagues delegated to the bench. When are we going to let the American people know the truth? I'm still convinced the the WTC was an inside job.

Bin Laden has most likely been dead for several years, perhaps as long ago as Nov 2007, when an article by a reporter alleging to have attended bin Laden's secretive funeral appeared in Egyptian papers, but not here. Truth or propaganda? Remember, here was a guy with acute kidney problems, who was apparently also injured at Tora Bora.

Folks,
Check out the the 2 images above: 2004, 2007. Bin Laden is wearing the exact same outfit from 3 yeas ago. Dah, I little contrast, and recoloring on the breard and whola, new inage. Americian propaganda wants us to remember him so that this whole war on terror lives. Do not get me wrong. I'm for the war on terror. I do not need Bin Laden to remind me though.

"Intelligence sources tell ABC News" - Which sources? Do tell...
"The jihadist Web site announced the tape with a banner" - What site? Does anyone have a link?

:)

I personally think the man is dead. How many "look alikes" did Saddam have?
This tape is doctored and it's another jihadist signal.
Don't forget 9/11 is just in a few days and those islamofascists use that date as a HOLY DAY.

I'm inclined to generally agree with Mr. Mattaino's comment.

Bin Laden was left with severe kidney damage after a failed assassination attempt by poisoning.

I happen to be of the opinion that he has been in Iran (Qom) at least part of the time. That is a "holy city", and security is quite good.

He gets younger looking every time I see him! He looks well rested and definitely thriving on that invigorating mountain air and shines with an emboldened convidence that only eluding the entire global intelligence force can bring to one's countenance.

This is a 'in your face' joke.

"Let's dredge up Osama, 'zing' the masses, remind them to stick with the program."

Why? Dick Cheney wants to bomb Iran?

Forget about it.

this is not necessarily only about propaganda. this might be a sign to his men to carry out attacks.

A good old bottle of dye and we got a different look. Looks like the same beard to me only dyed. I believe that the law is just saying this about a fake beard to stir ol bin ladens pot! Surely they can't really belive their own words, lol..geesh...

OBL is dead and has been for some time. Wake up people 9/11 was an inside job and they're getting ready to pull off another attack. The MSM is a propaganda arm of the criminal government. ALL THEY DO IS LIE!

Ron L, the reason why the US is in the middle east is because of your dependence on petroleum...YOUR DEPENDENCE ON PETROLEUM...if you want to be isolated, go live in the woods and eat tree bark, because if you do not, then you are a 100% patron of this war...anyway, UBL's beard may be black (thanks, Just For Men), but his sagging eyes, blueish lips, stressed face and slumping shoulders indicate a weary, tired, unhealthy man...

Maybe he got the fake beard from former Mets manager Bobby Valentine.

Americans can't allow themselves to believe these faudulent and well-timed videos are the work of their own rogue intelligence agencies because that would open an uncomfortable can of worms. If these videos are not what we've been told then what else is not what we've been told?

I have hard time believing that there's a bunch of Americans who think the government would make this up... al Qaeda is a live and a threat... it will take a world wide focus to stamp it out.

Re: MBB to Ron...

Ron you got owned, MBB is right on.

B.S.

Posted by: Jacques | Sep 7, 2007 10:13:46 AM
"...Shores of Tripoli..." Yep. Too bad folks can't read alittle more and talk alittle less.

I'm torn on the UBL thing. If he died of kidney disease in a dirty cave somewhere, that's almost a good way to go for him. But it would satisfy me mightily if a SEAL team got a couple rounds in him too. Oh decisions, decisions...

There's seems to be a lot more than a phony beard being passed off here. I draw portraits of people and I have a distinct eye for facial features. The photo above struck me as very odd and I had to do my own comparison. The shape of his eyes and cheeks of this man are all wrong compared to Bin Laden in the earlier photos from before 2001. There was also a video of him in 2001 that was glaringly obviously NOT Bin Laden. The man in that video looks nothing like the man above or the "real" Osama.

Let's all thank Bill Clinton for failing to realize how dangerous this man was, effectively allowing him to lead the efforts that resulted in 9/11. The threat is still very real, and it's the by the efforts of Homeland Security, the NSA and OUR BRAVE TROOPS that we haven't had a similar catastrophe since 2001.

Some of the lefties on these posts sound as crazy as Bin Laden. Few too many drugs in the 60's I guess.

Can someone explain how he's aging backwards? I think this is all a bunch of crap and the NeoCons are trying to justify this mess. I'm starting to think ignorance really is bliss...as Bush says "we're kicking ass" and 7 more soldiers died today. Maybe if he actually attended ONE soldier's funeral, he would be more careful with his words.

Looks to me like he's got liver failure,very jaundice.

I have a tip for Richard Clarke. Only if the beard were able to see could it 'look oddly'.
But it does 'look odd'.
Brush up your 4th grade English or they'll take away the 'e' Mr. Clarke.
Frank

Cheney armed this guy ?
Wake up America ?
It's mind boggling that we are surrounded with so many brain dead people.
I truly wish that all of them meet these Jihad fanatics.
That would be the best "wake up" ever !!

Puleeeeze? Have any of you WINGNUTS in the MEDIA ever heard of PHOTOSHOP?

I think he's HOT

Brian...let me guess.
1. There is no Bin Laden
2. There is no al Qaeda
3. There is no terrorism

This was all dreamed up the Bush Regime so we could steal their oil.

So Bin Laden, the most feared terrorist leader in the world has been reduced to making videos. Big deal, half the world has been doing that on YouTube for a while now. He should change his name to Bin Tapin.

Ron L....Were on the same earth together, remmeber, the middle east, south America, were here together. Saddam, Hitler, and you know the rest..they have to go....bottome line. Maybe you need to remover your self fram a "reality show" like the "Biggest loser" you will be better informed

RB.....Clinton had a better chance, if he would of killed Bin Laden we would have the problems we have...he had him handed to him

The muslims of North Africa weren't fanatics (at least in the sense that we know the word today); they were pirates. The capture and enslavement of those sailors was about money, not ideology. However, the subject does bring to mind a certain document that neo-conservatives would rather not discuss - the Treaty of Tripoli.

What did bin Laden say?

Why are you posting this video and picture? This is not what America needs to know, ya know? Sheesh! This just infuriates us and your blog/article doesn't solve anything. Reporting on this video or that Laden is still alive means nothing to us. What can we, as civilians, do about it? President Clinton should have killed him when they were right there at his caves, but he let him get away.

Clinton SUCKS!

Robert,
You asked for it when you brought parties into it. When will demacrates learn, Clinton let him go and ignored all the bombings like they never existed.

Should have nuked Tora Bora. Are we serious about this or not? Next time....kaboom!

Robert, You have looked at this photo for 15 minutes and determined it wasn't him? Wow, how about you examine the background while you're at it, and let us know exactly the location due to the microfiber origin and molecular compound of whatever it is behind him. Maybe then we could locate whom ever this is tha