Remember, though ... they like to talk big, and somebody or another has been threatening to make the US streets run red with blood every three days ...
You are so right Tilly, and UBL seemed so 'scripted' and said things in such a different demeanor and wording
'Morning!
You know, the other thing that's annoying is that ABC will not show the Azzam the American tape in full. While I know that there is some concern about a code ... the excerpts give enough info for any terrorist cell watching.
Frankly, I feel the same way about the new Bin Laden tape.
The American people can and should be trusted with information. For that matter ... I think the footage of the charred Americans hanging from the bridge should be broadcast, as well as the beheadings.
Not only does the public need to know exactly what's going on ... but we can be trusted with it.
A novel notion, I know, for US governmental agencies .... ohwell.
I agree, Piper, but if I were sending specific messages about specific operations I would be carefully scripted as well. And, I may need a tinfoil hat but even UBL's hand gestures seemed perfunctory...to such an extent that I got the feeling the text and motions were - in conjunction - specific "orders".
I really hope I just need a tin foil hat (Make it a medium, please).....
but I don't really believe I do.
I'm paraphrasing freely since it's a machine translation.
It begins:
"Wrapped in a golden cloak (the prince) steps up to the podium and quietly reads his statement Prime Minister style."
And it ends:
"Written history will record this golden upright Muslim Arab leader threatening the very heads of Rome at their military peak of power in a scene this nation didn't live hundreds of years ago."
They call him "the iman Osama Bin Laden" several times and "the leading sheikh" (along with Zawahiri) as well.