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Transcription: the "smoking gun" Osama Bin Laden videotape

 
  

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Ethan Hawke
17:46 / 14.12.01
Look at it this way: If someone did fake the film and/or audio, they could have made OBL/UBL look/sound a WHOLE LOT more guilty than he does in this tape. The best can be proved from this tape is mere foreknowledge of the attack (still enough to get him shot in a military tribunaL), not direct admission of planning and giving orders.
 
 
Sharkgrin
09:04 / 15.12.01
Remember, it's harder to acknowledge that Ol' Dirty Laden releases a video tape on the day of the US bombing through a news network for his own purposes, and that he may have fouled up on an earlier meeting (or he's likes talking smack to the rest of the world, even on camera), than it is to become the next Mulder and figure that 'W' would fake a gruesome chit-chat with Sheik Sulmane (he used to be #1 on the US off-this-guy list)
 
 
Jack The Bodiless
15:39 / 19.12.01
And having Bin Laden sit there and smugly tell everyone how and why he did it is a little too Bond villain even for the US Government. Even their own people wouldn't believe that... Whereas this has the ring of authenticity precisely because it's so vague. I'm sorry, but I don't believe it. Far too convenient... oh, and they actually are saying that this videotape justifies everything that was done in Afghanistan. Can't believe anyone's dense enough to make that connection, myself...
 
 
Jack The Bodiless
15:40 / 19.12.01
And having Bin Laden sit there and smugly tell everyone how and why he did it is a little too Bond villain even for the US Government. Even their own people wouldn't believe that... Whereas this has the ring of authenticity precisely because it's so vague. I'm sorry, but I don't believe it. Far too convenient... oh, and they actually are saying that this videotape justifies everything that was done in Afghanistan. Can't believe anyone's dense enough to make that connection, myself...
 
  

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