http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6345734/
CIA can’t authenticate
taped threat to U.S.
NBC: Analysts cite ‘low’ concern
MSNBC and NBC News
Updated: 1:50 p.m. ET Oct. 27, 2004
The CIA is unable to authenticate a videotape in which a man claiming to be an al-Qaida terrorist warns of devastating new attacks on the United States, a senior U.S. intelligence official told NBC News on Wednesday.
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The existence of the tape was first reported Wednesday afternoon by Internet columnist Matt Drudge, who said it was obtained last weekend in Pakistan by ABC News. Drudge quoted an unidentified “senior ABC News source” as saying the network was “working 24 hours a day trying to authenticate” it.
But the senior intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told NBC News that “we can’t authenticate” the tape, a copy of which ABC gave the CIA on Monday. He would not elaborate, adding, “I think that is where we are going to stand.”
They can't identify the person on the tape and that is why they can't *authenticate* it. The tape itself is of good quality....just reported on Foxnews.
This ain't good news folks...sounds like they can't authenticate it because it's authentic.