I had the same thought.
If you communications were disrupted, yet wanted to get the "code words" out, what would be the best way to do it?
Release a tape that makes no sense to anyone, other then the one waiting to recieve the message.
"If you communications were disrupted, yet wanted to get the "code words" out, what would be the best way to do it?
Release a tape that makes no sense to anyone, other then the one waiting to recieve the message."
Bull. You are overinterpreting this. Geez, Bin Laden's tape is a code. Zawahiri's poetry reading is code. Everything is code. Don't believe this for a minute. The Bin Laden tape (which I don't believe is Bin Laden for a minute) comes out because Zawahiri is dead. The Zawahiri audio tape (note, no visuals) that is most likely 2 years old, comes out because the terrorists wants the public to believe we didn't get Zawahiri. We did. He's dead. It's no more complicated than that.
All this sending code in these tapes smacks too much of the types that are conspiracy theorists also. Sometimes, just sometimes, it might be something very simple, like trying to prove to the world that your guy isn't deader than a doornail, when in reality he is. Show me a video with current commentary in it of Zawahiri talking about how na, na, na, na, na, you didn't get me. What makes me think no such video tape will show up?