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Second Bin Laden Tape Expected
September 10, 2007 9:13 AM
A second tape from Osama bin Laden was recorded in the same location as the video released last week.
People in the intelligence community who have seen the tape feel it is directly related to the 9/11 anniversary since the al Qaeda leader introduces the prerecorded martyrdom video of one of the 9/11 hijackers, Waleed al Shehri.
Waleed al Shehri was one of the hijackers on American Airlines flight 11 that crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
More to come...
September 10, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (310)
In the last video he sounded like a typical american college professor, praising Chomsky, etc.
Posted by: Scott Funkhouser | Sep 10, 2007 9:36:04 AM
I have a feeling he is gonna rant on Britney Spears horrible performance at the VMA.
Posted by: Cellenin | Sep 10, 2007 9:39:44 AM
...and Hillary still wears pant suits.
Posted by: mikedee | Sep 10, 2007 9:40:49 AM
Get the book "I.T. Wars" and read the last chapter.
Posted by: John Franks | Sep 10, 2007 9:41:16 AM
I cant stant even looking at a photo of him. I think if we find him....then somethinhg raadical should be done about his very existence and heads up and good to go...Get my drift I am speaking very indirectly but thats for a reason. Just take him....for a walk out in the desert. I am an American Citizen and am proud to live in this country and I get irate when someone messes with it.
Posted by: Anne McDowell | Sep 10, 2007 9:42:38 AM
I don't have a good feeling about tomorrow.
Posted by: JB | Sep 10, 2007 9:43:50 AM
I wonder when UBL's buddy Chomsky will appear in a video with him...
Posted by: Scott Funkhouser | Sep 10, 2007 9:44:27 AM
I have had it with the Democrats; they are losers. We need to get this over with and go in and destroy bin laden. No apologies, just do it. This is ridiculous, a bunch of women-hating pre-industrial clowns with AK-47's thinking they can take the US down. 9-11 happened, and it happened just like it was yesterday. We have not forgotten, and we want bin laden and his band of idiot cut-throats dead.
Posted by: Andy | Sep 10, 2007 9:47:51 AM
I don't give a rats what Osama has to say. Why are you giving him a forum for his anti-american flow of sewage?
Posted by: Dave Coriaty | Sep 10, 2007 9:49:33 AM
this is just the dub version of the other ...nothing new content-wise
Posted by: 1969mets | Sep 10, 2007 9:50:06 AM
Is it too early for the conspiracy theory nutjobs?
Posted by: Freaks | Sep 10, 2007 9:50:54 AM
Interesting. I wonder if Bin Laden will have more of the Democrats' talking points included in this speech.
Does anyone ever get concerned that the terrorists are in agreement with the Democrats on most issues? We need a president who is on the side of our enemy according to the Dems.
Posted by: Rebecca | Sep 10, 2007 9:51:23 AM
How convenient! Just when the republicans need a boost too. I say it couldn't come at a better time. Oh, joy rapture.
Posted by: usadcj | Sep 10, 2007 9:55:02 AM
Its been reported that Waleed Al Shehri is still alive. But, don't let the facts get in the way of a propaganda campaign. Doesn't anyone have any credibility anymore?
Posted by: all seeing-eye | Sep 10, 2007 9:56:24 AM
This guy is getting to be a pest. This is like a SNL skit gone bad.
Posted by: Kathy | Sep 10, 2007 9:57:32 AM
Next thing he'll be on Bill Maher.
Posted by: Kathy | Sep 10, 2007 9:58:50 AM
I would disagree with 99% of you. The terrorist are not "with" the democrats. They are more aligned with republicans. See the republican administration is doing nothing to catch or kill Bin Laden. He is therefore trying to make sure another republican gets in office so he is safe and has the means to recruit new members.
He is scared that a democrat will actually focus on him instead of the oil rich nations of Iraq and Iran.
Posted by: nativeokie | Sep 10, 2007 10:01:13 AM
OBL is dead. The guy they are using now has many of the same features are OBL, but also has many dissimilar features. OBL was killed in years ago in Tora Bora, IMO.
I'm not sure who benefits more from perpetuating the notion OBL is still alive and well, muslim terrorists or our war on terror.
Posted by: Patti O'Riley | Sep 10, 2007 10:01:27 AM
Does this mean Bin Laden wants in on the next Democrat Debate?
Posted by: dammy | Sep 10, 2007 10:02:41 AM
Strange how this comes out just when Bush needs more money and support for the war. Something to due with terrorists always shows up when he is in need. Always perfect timing. Why is that?
Posted by: Joyce | Sep 10, 2007 10:04:05 AM
Here is the transcript-
Oh wait. That wasn't OBL. That was Hillary's latest campaign speech.
Posted by: toyguytn | Sep 10, 2007 10:05:50 AM
Osama sounds more and more like a liberal. He shares many of the same views with America's Democratic party.
It is to bad that the Liberals in our country have not noticed how many fellow Muslims have been killed at the hands of Islam.
Maybe our liberals think Osama is interested in only killing Conservatives.
Posted by: j gruber | Sep 10, 2007 10:06:32 AM
Oswami has offically joined the democratic party. Might as well join them since they all have the same agenda.
Posted by: DisabledVet46 | Sep 10, 2007 10:11:40 AM
No, nativeokie, he is with the Demcrats. Just because Bush can't seem to close ANY border, doesn't mean UBL isn't a member of Moveon or Kos! He has their talking points down pat! Just admit it, Dems! You like the way the guy thinks! Bush is an ass, but you guys are traitors
Posted by: Jthomas | Sep 10, 2007 10:11:47 AM
Bin Laden is just a puppet. He doesn't exist.
Posted by: Admin | Sep 10, 2007 10:12:31 AM
Let's hope that this video shows him moving throughout, unlike the last one where it went still about 2 minutes into it...with just the voice in the background.
-osgo
Posted by: osgo | Sep 10, 2007 10:13:09 AM
The guy is a war monger and complains about taxes being to high in America. And most of you sheeple say he is aligned with Democrats. He sounds like he is trying to one up Romney at a Republican debate.
Posted by: seeryer | Sep 10, 2007 10:14:41 AM
O look another democrat who knows nothing about whats going on. If the republicans keep getting elected OBL is dead... HOW DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND ARE YOU REALLY THAT DUMB
Posted by: zak brisk | Sep 10, 2007 10:15:06 AM
Have any of you read the transcript of Bin Laden's message? This is world is so oblivious that no one cares how much he praises "Allah" and that he says that Jesus is Allah's prophet. Jesus is the Son of God (and Allah is not the true God).
Islam is the anti-christ religion prophecied in the Bible.
Posted by: Mark Lawrence | Sep 10, 2007 10:15:42 AM
Interesting...An Administration official "baits" Bin Laden on public television as "impotent" in the hopes of tracking his location. I guess this is smart policy if it works or a disaster if it emboldens terrorists to respond.
Posted by: Interesting | Sep 10, 2007 10:16:00 AM
Hey! Isn't he breaking the FEC laws by promoting the Democrats with his tapes? Someone at ABC should check to see if he is on Hillary's or Obama's payroll, too! He sounds too much like the Democrats - anybody seen Sandy Burger lately?
Posted by: Jthomas | Sep 10, 2007 10:16:53 AM
Hey Joyce:
You should ask Osama that question. I don't know why. But truthfully ... why does Bush need it NOW versus two or four or six months ago? I think your perceptions are off. Secondly ... OBL did this in '04 to hopefully influence the nation to vote democrat. What does that tell you about democrats!? Did you read his latest t-script? It could have been a campaign speech from any democrat! Your question sounds like a Keith Olberman conspiracy theory. Wake up.
Posted by: Victor | Sep 10, 2007 10:17:10 AM
cant we just follow the deliveryman of these videos and find out where he is hiding?
Posted by: barclay | Sep 10, 2007 10:18:29 AM
Bin Laden is a cretin. Anyone that follows this idiot is a cretin as well.
Posted by: Grand Poobah | Sep 10, 2007 10:19:07 AM
Why do they keep giving this man a forum. That picture of him is terrible if I did not know better it almost looks like he is dead. Look at his eyes they are down for the most part. They say he is speaking but who really knows.
Now we should concentrate on the UNITED STATES not where this idiot is we have enough to handle without hearing about what he has to say.
This is free advertising for him that is if that is him of which I really doubt.
MAY GOD BLESS ALL OF US IN THE UNITED STATES BECAUSE NOBODY ELSE CARES WHETHER WE LIVE OF DIE OR GOVERNMENT SURELY DOES NOT.
Posted by: Carol | Sep 10, 2007 10:19:32 AM
It is terribly convenient for W that this comes out just now, isn't it? All of you Dem-bashers are playing into his hands once again, with your kneejerk comparisons of the Dems to this criminal all Americans despise. Maybe you are just holding onto the threads of your sanity, because if you see reality, you'd have to acknowledge that YOU voted these criminal cowards into office, who left Osama alive because it served their purposes in further terrorizing Americans, so we wouldn't question their criminal war in the Middle East - which Cheney et al planned as long ago as 1998. (Google PNAC for proof.) And if you acknowledged your own culpability, you'd have to realize YOU are the ones on Osama's side; you've given him exactly what he wanted - a cause that has and will continue to draw more to his jihadist movement. You should be ashamed. And once you get over that, furious at the Repubs. And you should support getting rid of your lying, criminal president and his corporate cronies that YOU put in the White House to trash our economy, our reputation and our Constitution. Dissent is the highest form of patriotism - I believe the Osama-supporter Thomas Jefferson penned that one.
Posted by: Gogi | Sep 10, 2007 10:19:55 AM
I'm one of many who believe he is dead. I think that the video is a look-a-like or an old video. If I had any say in the matter I would not give him or the video any coverage or time of day.
Posted by: Fraser | Sep 10, 2007 10:22:48 AM
These Osama Bin Laden tapes points out the security weakness of the USA Intellignece Community to capture this Islamic Rebel General who will eventually rule all the Islamic Republics, of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran, with his ruthless Al Queda warrriors. Many of these "Islamic warriors," seeminglt, are already inside the USA, waidting for the right time to devestate USA cities with suicide bombers. The great, late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein should have never been murdered, because now nobody stands in Osma bin Laden's way to be the new "Islamic King Of The Middle East.
Posted by: EagleWisdom | Sep 10, 2007 10:22:51 AM
Boycott the media. Their motives are revenue and trash the US. Don't give the bad guys a soap box to vent their anger. Also loose lips sink ships.
Posted by: Leonard Mirabile | Sep 10, 2007 10:24:26 AM
Hey Victor. Read The 1% Doctrine. Intelligence analysts concluded the tape was made, in fact, to help Bush. Geroge W Bush's policies has made Bin Laden's organization much more capable than it ever was.
Posted by: seeryer | Sep 10, 2007 10:27:12 AM
I have serious concerns for the future of this nation if any of you seriously believe that democrats share anything in common with Bin Laden and the terrorist.
I cannot believe anyone is that ignorant and if you in fact are it proves our public education system is in serious trouble.
Posted by: nativeokie | Sep 10, 2007 10:27:52 AM
Bin Laden never really existed, CIA plot from the git go. except if he were alive we would put him in GITMO! haha
Don't believe everything you see on the media controlled US TV.
Always follow the money trail... points to the US OIL Companies and the synthetic war on terrorism. When bush needs Bin laden the most, he suddenly and conveniently appears. Total BS!
Posted by: steve | Sep 10, 2007 10:28:09 AM
Why do we give this nut any attention?? He is using our media to send messages and we shouldn't allow him to do that. Who cares what he says anyway?? Like this man has any credibility with anyone!! I've heard there are several people who masquerade for him, it could be a stand-in for all we know. Last picture I saw of him, he looked half-dead and had a scraggly, grey beard. Now he looks much healthier with a dark beard, probably a stand-in!!! Did he use hair dye, like JUST FOR MEN.
Posted by: Beth | Sep 10, 2007 10:28:18 AM
Wow, the RNC is posting a lot of propaganda messages here.
Posted by: Dan H. | Sep 10, 2007 10:30:17 AM
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I KNEW IT! Just a matter of time before someone HAD to imply that he was doing this for Bush's benefit. To all you tin foil hat wearing, conspiracy-loving nut jobs: if Clinton had taken them on when they did the '93 WTC bombing, Somalia, the USS Cole, Yemen, and Khobar towers; we wouldn't be in this situation! Hindsite is 20/20. Can we PLEASE just come together as a nation to fight this disease of humanity!
Posted by: boB | Sep 10, 2007 10:31:32 AM
Are you kidding me? You don't confront evil by being afraid and worrying about the consequences of defeating evil. You defeat it and anythin else that follows. This isn't the first war and it won't be the last. Can you all please just grow up and stop with "give peace a chance" utopia?
Posted by: boB | Sep 10, 2007 10:33:31 AM
You conservatives are so dumb. Osama is long dead. The reason why he sounds like a liberal is because he's an actor paid to make the Democrats look bad and help the conservatives keep office.
Expect to see this actor back, sometime a few weeks before the election in 2008.
Posted by: Eric | Sep 10, 2007 10:34:23 AM
I am not a traitor. I am actually a veteran of the Iraq war. I served 2 tours in Iraq while you sat on your every growing butt spewing out this crap about how Democrats are bad and republicans are the only party to save this nation.
We who actually fought in Afghanistan and Iraq are patriots. We fought, some lived and we came home. We are here to expose the true traitors to the constitution. And buddy, it isn't the democrats.
Posted by: nativeokie | Sep 10, 2007 10:36:15 AM
Why do we keep giving this nut a forum to rant and rave, like anybody takes him seriously?? He has several men who masquerade as him and this looks like one of them because the last photo of him he looked half-dead with a grey/white scraggly beard. Now he looks healthy with a black beard so did he dye his beard.
Posted by: Bethy | Sep 10, 2007 10:36:51 AM
1. The Air Force flew 6 nuclear weapons over the US 'by accident' last week. You all remember the news story. We have not been told if all 6 have been accounted for, let alone has it been proven to us.
2. Chertoff and Hayden (DHS, CIA), have been telling us all summer that a terror attack is imminent.
3. Bush says "wait until September" for Pertraus report. Why September?
Posted by: Eric | Sep 10, 2007 10:39:05 AM
Well put, Steve. Remember, the "code name" for the initial invasion was Operation Iraqi Liberation ... which spells O.I.L. Not a joke, the real name of the operation.
Funny, ain't it? Only it's not.
Posted by: Gogi | Sep 10, 2007 10:39:05 AM
The evidence for this position is non-existent. Not ONE respected, serious Democrat believes the stuff you do. You pen an angry email ... but it's too bad for you that the democratic party doesn't really believe in any of your own insanity. Too bad for you. You and your fellow nutjobs are a side show. You attract attention ... but you're still a side show.
Posted by: Victor | Sep 10, 2007 10:39:51 AM
Beth, it is actually Islamic custom for the men to dye their beards to appear youthful. It is mostly the leaders that do it though. Apparently age is not as important to them. We embrace those with grey hair as wise, they see it as weak.
We saw this all the time with militant leaders in Afghanistan and Iraq. For some the appearance changes are pretty drastic and made identification of leaders tougher.
Posted by: nativeokie | Sep 10, 2007 10:40:12 AM
THEY MUST THINK I'M STUPID, I BELIEVE THAT GUY IS OSAMA BIN LADEN LIKE I BELIEVE BUSH IS THE GREATSET PRESIDENT EVER!
Posted by: DONALD | Sep 10, 2007 10:40:20 AM
"if Clinton had taken them on when they did the '93 WTC bombing ..." Get an education - and not on ABC or Faux News. TO DATE, the only successful prosecution of a terrorist in the U.S. was for the first WTC bombing, done under the Clintons, who also bombed AQ terror camps in Aghanistan and Iraq. And who strongly urged Bush to act, not ignore the threat. But of course - typical knee-jerk: whatever Clinton says MUST be wrong to a Bushie. So they ignored warning after warning after warning. Naturally, THAT'S Clinton's fault, too.
Posted by: Gogi | Sep 10, 2007 10:42:33 AM
4. Why September? and why the nukes flying over the US last week 'by accident'? It is clear a handful of neo-conservative wackos have hijacked the US government. I fear these people, the same ones that fed bogus information to the public to help encourage the Iraq war, are now about to do something sickening. Would they dare hijack one of the 6 nuclear weapons mentioned in last week's news stories and detonate it to secure their power base and put us on an unending path to war? I for one think these people are connected well enough into the military secrecy system that they could pull a plan like this off without anyone in the rest of the government able to figure them out.
Posted by: Eric | Sep 10, 2007 10:42:43 AM
He looks like hes posturing for a sponsorship from Grecian Formula
Posted by: zullo | Sep 10, 2007 10:45:15 AM
YEA I CAN COME ON HERE AND SAY I WAS A IRAQ WAR VETERAN TOO... POINT IS, EVEN IF YOU ARE TELLING THE TRUTH, SOME PEOPLE DONT SEE THE BIGGER PICTURE AND CARE ABOUT THEMSELVES AND DONT SEE THE LOGIC OF THIS WAR... YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF
Posted by: ZAK BRISK | Sep 10, 2007 10:45:16 AM
Gogi haven't you heard. Everything is Clintons fault.
I mean he was responsible for everything from bad weather, traffic jams, global warming you name it.
Sometimes I think this nation needs another civil war. I certainly know who I and many in the military would back. It would not be any idiot in an SUV with a W sticker on the back.
Posted by: nativeokie | Sep 10, 2007 10:45:28 AM
How can you stick with this criminal? At best he is the WORST president ever, due to incompetence. But I happen to think he's a criminal who's sold us out to his oil buddies for cold, hard cash. Follow the money. Cheney, Bush, et al have bought up land in Dubai and Argentina. Why do you think that is? In case they are ever caught and put on trial as the war criminals they are ... they can run and hide. Cowards and criminals.
Posted by: Gogi | Sep 10, 2007 10:47:14 AM
Gogi, you miss the point -- a bunch of yacking lawyers in a court room is not going to stop muslim terrorists. We have to take the fight to them, where they live and breath. If we don't, they bring their holy war to us, as we have seen time and again.
Posted by: Patti O'Riley | Sep 10, 2007 10:49:50 AM
The problem is that the US-government discriminate external anti-terrorist experts. It's not difficult capture Osama bin Laden. But the USA doesn't want to fund the operation. They want us to work free of charge--using our own savings.
Benny
Posted by: Benny | Sep 10, 2007 10:51:14 AM
Did he discuss Michael Vick? If not, it's clearly a fake.
Posted by: Jeff | Sep 10, 2007 10:51:23 AM
Look at the nose eyebrows & lips of the Bin Laden in a camoflage jacket & the pic in the yellow robes.... if that's the same guy I'll eat my hat..and why is this new tape's clarity fuzzy..bad CIA graphics. I can use adobe illustrator better than that...
Posted by: Zorar | Sep 10, 2007 10:53:25 AM
Why does Bush need him at all?? Wake up Dems, BUSH IS NOT RUNNING AGAIN!!! But you couldn't tell that from all of the drivvle coming form the Dem. candidate mouths. This administration is all but over. There are many things that I, as a Reagan conservative, take exception with in the Bush Admin., but God help us all if the Dems. get the White House.
Posted by: Doug | Sep 10, 2007 10:54:40 AM
When this scumbag is found - KILL HIM on the spot.
Posted by: Ed Stanowicz | Sep 10, 2007 10:56:12 AM
Hey "buddy" Democrats are traitors. buddy! I'm a Gulf War Vet, served in Central America, Africa and Afganistan before you knew where it WAS, buddy! Jim Wright (Democrat) cut off our funds while we were in Central America, buddy! Just like they (Democrats) did to my brother in SE Asia, buddy! So, buddy, drink the Dem Cool Aid!
Posted by: Jthomas | Sep 10, 2007 10:57:21 AM
Conspiracy theories, strange coincidences, whatever you want to call them are ignored when brought up "after the fact". In fact, i hate most of them, but read that post by "ERIC" Sep 10, 2007 10:39:05 AM
If something were to happen, keep in mind that those things all conveniently line up. Not probable that anything will happen, but interesting post Eric.
Posted by: columbusjackets | Sep 10, 2007 10:57:26 AM
Nativeoki, thank you for your service and your sanity. But is there hope that this country will come to its senses? It seems that - as soon as the dreaded face of the coward Osama is shown again - everyone wants to turn tail and run, which in this case means "stick with the devil you know," aka Bush. As if he's done such a fabulous job SO FAR, including 9/11 on his watch, the horribly botched Afghanistan and the disaster in Iraq. Not to mention the Katrina debacle, record deficits, the VA, etc.
Posted by: Gogi | Sep 10, 2007 10:58:13 AM
I wonder what our liberal "friends" would say if there is actually another attack on US soil and OBL takes credit? Some of them, like some here, will, no doubt, hold to the contention that actually OBL is dead or, worse yet, never even really existed anyway! (Amazing what special effects OBL's crew can pull off in the midst on some mountain region--that guy sure look like OBL and how did they get legions of our enmey to swear allegiance and go train with a figment of the CIA's propaganda imagination?!)
Posted by: Den | Sep 10, 2007 11:02:43 AM
You've had it with the Democrats? It was Bushy Boy and his crew who diverted the whole war by going after Iraq, which had nothing to do with 9/11. Had they stayed in Afghanistan and even tried harder with Pakistan he would have been captured. Or do they even want him captured? They use the video tapes to get other bad news buried and then use FEAR to give the Republicans a boost. It was done on the Republicans watch and had Bush listened to the warnings instead of been on vacation maybe it never would have happened.
Posted by: Pam | Sep 10, 2007 11:03:03 AM
7 years later and no Bin Laden. Not a surprise though, here are 2 G.W. Bush quotes about Bin Laden...
"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."
- G.W. Bush, 3/13/02 "I am truly not that concerned about him." - G.W. Bush, responding to a question about bin Laden's whereabouts, 3/13/02 (The New American, 4/8/02)
Posted by: Where's Bin Laden? | Sep 10, 2007 11:04:51 AM
Oh, Patti, darling, where did you get that? You are drinking the Koolaid. Nobody's talking about yacking lawyers here. The only proven way to combat terror is through police action, not by military force - unless you've got millions of boots on the ground, which we ain't got. It has never worked in the history of the world against an insurgent or terrorist enemy. That's why it isn't and can't ever be a declared 'war.' The War on Terror is a misnomer, like the War on Poverty of LBJ era.
Posted by: Gogi | Sep 10, 2007 11:05:06 AM
Osama is not an idiot, only a fanatic. On the other hand, quite a few of you are not fanatic but only...
Posted by: Blaine | Sep 10, 2007 11:07:29 AM
republicans supporters are so out of reality bin laden on tv do i need to say more when will the war on terror begin ?
Posted by: jimmy | Sep 10, 2007 11:09:17 AM
Pay attention, folks, WE ALL HATE OSAMA! He should've been our #1 target and Bush should have stuck with it instead of his "I don't worry about him any more" comments when he couldn't catch him and wanted to go after Iraq oil. For the record, I'm all for police action and lots of it - wherever and wherever it's needed. It's the only thing that works against terror. But we don't need to be depleting our military - especially our National Guard, whom we need at home - in Iraq, where NO AL QUAEDA THREAT EXISTED before Bush made it a perfect recruitment and training ground. That just plays into the terrorists' hands, making it harder for us to respond at home when the next attack comes. (Which of course will be Clinton's fault.)
Posted by: Gogi | Sep 10, 2007 11:09:50 AM
Guess what boys and girls? You're looking at a Bin Laden look-alike. The real piece of s*%# is long dead. If one colors his beard, that doesn't change HIS FACIAL STRUCTURE!
This whole video "message" is a non-story.(yawn) Turn the page.
Posted by: michael perona | Sep 10, 2007 11:11:43 AM
As long as citizens continually buy into polarizing- people, places and things as right or wrong based on political parties or labeling the established culture in Washington DC will keep going business as usual playing all of us as pawns by promoting and propagating fear. I am not writing that there should be some level of natural fear of the unknown. It should not be used to control or manipulate us. The powers in control are not dems or repubs in the traditional sense of the party affiliations but special interest groups that buy and pay for capitalistic not democratic endeavors. Electoral college and supreme court decided one election. A government of the people by the people for the people is unfortunately an ideal not a fact. If money is the main need or factor in electing a president then who or what really represents us? My God, let us all get beyond partisan blame game and move on to what is really important before it is too late.
Posted by: london | Sep 10, 2007 11:12:12 AM
Strange how many of the posters took the time to blast Democrats or more specifically Hillary as a reaction to OBL. 6 years after 9/11, and he's still free to create havoc in the US. We didn't really win either the war in Afghanistan or Iraq, and we've demonstrated that we can't keep the peace. Every shot that conservatives take at liberals and vice versa is a victory for OBL.
Posted by: msngr | Sep 10, 2007 11:14:50 AM
I find it telling how OBL's speech reads like something written by the Democrats.
Posted by: Ubiquitous | Sep 10, 2007 11:15:22 AM
Bin laden is dead this video was shot years ago and is frozen at certain times to put in dubbed words this whole thing is a farce WAKE UP PEOPLE we don't have very much time left!
Posted by: Voice of Reason | Sep 10, 2007 11:21:05 AM
I cannot tolerate any more of this myopic idealogical banter on behalf of your respective political parties. This is the single most nauseating display of bipartisan grandstanding I have ever seen. Why can't you people learn to make up your own mind for once? Conservatives, Liberals, Democrats, Republicans... all of you have little to no sentient concept of original thought. You become easily outraged at something someone else says based on the fact that they are alligned with one political party or another. I wish this country could get out of a political system that dates back to ancient rome, and for once crawl out of the dark ages. Our fundamental political beliefs are antiquated and counterproductive. There has to be a more enlightened form of government. I am so tired of the frustrated tax paying middle class (of which I am a member) being subject to all of the political propaganda of men and women that care little to none about us or the rest of the country. We are given this lame bipartisan ideology to occupy our time like children. Meanwhile these corrupt politicians and powermongers manipulate the masses with constant contradictory behavior. The United States of America is nothing but a slave to a giant lame duck burocracy hiding behind a curtain of globalization and world power. Our citizens are as much a tool of the propaganda set forth by the media and politicians as the communist block of the latter part of the 20th century. Wake up and take the country back from this programming.. THINK FOR YOURSELVES!!!!
Posted by: Proctor | Sep 10, 2007 11:21:43 AM
The first tape wasn't sufficient, need to make the next one scarier....(official White House source)
Posted by: chabuka | Sep 10, 2007 11:21:56 AM
They say the speech writer most likely was Adam Ghadan (sik) because of the style and substance. If you recall Ghadan sent a tape similar to this in its content and tone this past year. Ghadan is an American convert to radical Islam.
Posted by: Jim | Sep 10, 2007 11:23:35 AM
OBL and his religious whack jobs are exactly like the GOP religious whack jobs. their leaders all talk with god, from whom they take their direction. it is too bad we could't find a place they could go, and fight it out..let the best god win.
Posted by: dave | Sep 10, 2007 11:26:35 AM
Did it not occur to you that the video was INTENDED to read like something written by the democrats in order to discredit them/associate OBL with them? The video was most likely produced by people working for the Republican neo-cons.
Posted by: hey msngr | Sep 10, 2007 11:28:14 AM
Based on these comments,it is apparent that far to many of you have no knowlege of to area in which UBL is suppose to be hiding. If you did,you would understand the reasons he has not been found. It is easy to be a arm chair quarterback,we have people in this country on our ten most wanted list,that do not have the money or the support that UBL has helping him,and we can't find the people,on these list here at home. Hillary couldn't find a box of files in her office for over a year,and she's suppose to be one of smartest women in the country. And you think she's going to find "UBL". For the history challanged people in this blog.it took as long as 40+ years to find "war" criminal's from "WW II" And some were never found. And this was with both goverenments from all over the world looking for them.
