It also seems some of my fellow Freepers think this has bin Laden's DNA smeared all over it.
If it's something to worry about, Tom Ridge will raise the level to ORANGE, plain and simple. The President cannot afford to have a terrorist attack with a material warning sitting on his desk, and then not act on it if it's a matter of urgency.
We don't know when the tape was made. We know it was FOUND. That tells us nothing.
It is a joke. Probably made in Hollywood.
It's the same attitude that allowed ABC to hold on to the video for a few days. After what happened in Spain and the fact that we are days away from an election it is better to error on the side of caution and not worry about who this helps in the election. I hope more people are as mad as I am about this, it's not funny in the least.
(1) inbound Red Line metro train was stopped yesterday morning around 7:40 at Woodley Park/Zoo station for "security check" with train stopped and a Metro "swat" type officer walking alongside looking into the cars - he did not enter (first time that's ever happened to me since 9/11, and I heard from others that other trains were also stopped)
(2) yesterday around 5:45 in Rockville I thought I heard a fighter circling up in the clouds - familiar with that sound from after 9/11, but hadn't heard it recently