Posted on 12/15/2005 1:55:57 PM PST by Fractal Trader
U.S. officials are treating skeptically a report on an Afghan news site about a new video showing Osama bin Laden.
The story from Pajhwok Afghan News, dated Tuesday, describes a new 30-minute tape with a message from Taliban commander Mullah Dodallah and the al-Qaida leader, according to the IntelCenter, a U.S. government contractor that does work for intelligence agencies.
A U.S. counterterrorism official, who spoke only on condition of anonymity in compliance with office policy, said the government could not confirm the tape's existence, but said officials are aware of the media report. U.S. authorities are viewing it skeptically, the official said.
Bin Laden has not been heard from since a December 2004 audio statement. That is the longest stretch the terror leader has been publicly quiet since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
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He's dead.....trust me.
He's dead people. Get it?
Al-Queda trying to step on the Iraqi election.
I'll believe he's alive when I see him reading a current issue of his favorite rag....the NYT.
No doubt there's a hidden attack message in it, regardless of production date.
I'll believe he's alive if he supports Ron Artest being traded.
HDJ
(He's Dead, Jim...)
> He's dead.....trust me.
No, he's undead.
Not dead enough to cause the Surrendercrats to declare
the WoT over and demand that the troops come home, and ...
Not alive enough to actually do anything, except get
current and prospective members of the Cutthroat Cult
wondering if allah really wants jihad, or if she
actually exists at all.
Osama bin Laid to rest
Exactly. No martyr, no saint, just a pile of bones and the rehashed videos from long ago.....we played this exactly right.
The article says the last time Bin Laden was heard from was December 2004. I thought it was in October 2004, when he endorsed John Kerry for President.
Finally, someone who thinks the same as me. If he was alive they would have shown him in a video with a newspaper in front of him.
NYT sport section!!
Like John Kerry, Osama was dead before he was undead.
Another 30 minute tape? With the holidays just around the corner, you'd think he'd come out with a box set.
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