Can't confirm bin Laden tape authentic: White House

Reuters ^ | January 24,2010 | Vicky Allen

[ColdOne]

I can't confirm that (al Qaeda's responsibility for the attack) nor can we confirm the authenticity of the tape, but assuming that it is him, his message contains the same hollow justifications for the mass slaughter of innocents that we've heard before," David Axelrod said on CNN's "State of the Union" program.

The audiotape that aired on Al Jazeera television on Sunday claimed responsibility for the attempted Christmas Day bombing of the Detroit-bound plane. A Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, has been

[A_Former_Democrat]

Let Obama listen

He can tell us.

[vox_freedom]

They are all “off the clock” at the White House.
You know, it is the weekend, and all that...

[vox_freedom]

Dear Hillary,
It’s Osama bin Laden.
Holding on line 12.
Should I tell him you’ll get back to him, or what?

[bigbob]

Bin laden is as dead as Ted

[gov_bean_ counter]

Has been, but Obie wasn't high enough up the Senatorial food chain to have been read into that intel. Now he knows and Osama isn't such a big deal.

[my small voice]

Translation #1: We’ve cut the nuts off the CIA and now we suck at intelligence.

Translation #2: We’re lying because we don’t want to draw attention (so soon after the Christmas bombing attempt and Mass) to the fact that we are a bunch of weenie’s who have no idea about national security.

Pick one...they both work.

[cripplecreek]

Deader even.

[updatedscreenname]

‘national security’ 0 can’t even secure the white house.

Now that he is seen as weak. Every terrorist and US enemy
thinks now is the time to act.

[Question Liberal Authority]

his message contains the same hollow justifications for the mass slaughter of innocents that we've heard before

Actually, it doesn't. Post-911 tapes blamed American troop presence in Saudi Arabia. Later, it was American troop presence in the Middle East. Later, it was the existence of Abu Grahib and Guantanamo Bay.

This tape specifically singles out 'support for Israel'. Which was NOT an issue stated in Obama's original declaration of war on the United States, nor post 9/11.

[The Comedian]

Headline:

Osama Can't Confirm White House is Authentic

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[AndyPH]

White House can´t confirm hussain obama is a true American.therefore I doubt they can confirm anything.

[chopperman]

He’s dead, Jim.

http://www.glumbert.com/media/deadjim

[CyberAnt]

So now they’re going to lie about who is on the tape ..??

Does this mean they plan to proclaim that Obama did away with Osama ..??

No body .. no proclaiming!

[ColdOne]

Everything out of this White House is a lie (They couldn’t even be truthfull about a cooking show!) So maybe Usama is still alive?????

[onemiddleamerican]

The Obama Spinmeister is saying this so the Obama Machine can later spin that it was on their watch that binLaden was killed, just like Obama promised us that he would when he inherited the man-made disaster war from Bush/Cheney.

BinLaden's been dead for a long time, IMO; before BO took office. BO will eventually try to say that it happened under his watch, tho.

[freebird5850]

I suspect Obama will use this somehow in the State of the Union address and he will claim that he is winning the war on terror NOT! I hope someone embarrasses him during his speech. America is waking up to see through this fake.

[citizencon]

It doesn’t matter if the tape is authentic or not, or whether OBL is dead or alive; what matters is Abdulmutallab is an Al Qaeda terrorist and should be treated as such.

[SuperLuminal]

Amazing how quick they were to accept the validity during the Bush era...but now they can’t be sure...

[ASA Vet]