[Smogger]

I don't know about all this, something has got to be phony. If this tape were ligit, then the cia, fbi, ss, homeland sec. would be on abc in a second to hand over the entire tape. something smells here. I have suspicions this tape is not genuine, not directly from whomever is running al qaida. Maybe this nutjob from cal is behind it in an attempt to scare voters away from GWB, and the fbi have had their eyes on him, but I don't think he is the real article. there is definitly something more going on here than we are aware. no doubt politically motivated but not what it appears to be.

You need to read the CSM article on the tape. The everyone thinks it's authentic INCLUDING our government.

[SeaBiscuit]

Do you mean this article?

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1029/p06s01-wosc.html

"Unless you can identify the individual or compare [it] to known samples, it is difficult to authenticate," says a US intelligence official. "There's no information in the intelligence community that links this video to a specific threat. So what [the speaker] is talking about doesn't appear in other intelligence."

Nevertheless, it's become easier and cheaper to produce a relatively sophisticated video. With about $3,500, one can purchase a small digital video camera and a laptop with video editing software, and create output, which as Kohlmann puts it, is worthy of "a half-decent Hollywood studio."

"Terrorist wannabes [have] manufactured an encyclopedia full of fraudulent threats and communiques on the Internet," says Kohlmann. "It is now getting easy enough that similar wannabes can produce their own jihad videos too."

I have my doubts its a real threat, I still think its a politically motivated ploy by a terrorist(s), and then abc decided since they had possesion of the tape they might as well carry the ball so to speak.