State Department Tried to Stop Airing of Bin Laden Tape

Associate Press ^ | October 29, 2004 | Barry Schweid

[Dog Gone]

The State Department is under the Executive Branch, and the lack of control means a weak Executive Leader.

Fine, believe your reality. It's not mine, nor the one of most informed people.

[mlocher]

Elections completed in Afganistan and Iraq is next. OBL is feeling threatened by all this progress.

yessirreeee! that and the fact that arafat is on his death bed....

[Doe Eyes]

How many big jets in the US have crashed since we discovered th 'shoe bomber' and started watching that more closely???

Except for that American Airlines jet that blew up after taking off in New York, not too many.

[Kay Ludlow]

Of course there were 4 planes hijacked that morning..

Yes indeed, but only one was shown live on TV while it was happening. I suspect that if a plane hit the WTC, a plane hit the Pentagon and a plane crashed into the ground in PA during the Clinton Admin, the discussion would have been circling around what the unusual variations in Solar radiation may have been that day. With a second plane clearly deliberately flying into the second tower, they guaranteed there would be no way to spin it as anything except a deliberate attack.

[livius]

The MSM was convinced the war in Afghanistan was a hopeless quagmire a week after it got underway.

Thanks! I'd forgotten that,actually - the scads of articles on the British Afghan wars, dire warnings of how our troops would be decimated by the Muslims, etc. I bet the pressies were really disappointed that none of this happened, but they were probably cheered up by being able to work their magic on Iraq instead.

[Kay Ludlow]

Except for that American Airlines jet that blew up after taking off in New York, not too many.

I don't know about you, but I'm pretty suspicious of that one. The rudder FELL OFF? Come on - most seasoned pilots don't buy that. Pilot error - a pilot, weeks after 9/11, panicked on takeoff enough to tear off the rudder when that's never happened before? Hmmm. Not buying that bridge...

[Finalapproach29er]

Election day bombings in swing states?

What would we do? Nobody has the authority to cancel elections.

[Finalapproach29er]

They're moon worshippers.

Ramadan just ended, and we have a full moon phase.

My gut is in a knot.

[blink182prj]

Rememembr this? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1189125/posts

[Fledermaus]

Everyone in the State Department should be fired. Start over from Powell on down.

They are one of the most out of control government agencies.

[focusandclarity]

The link wouldn't give me the page, any other way of finding it?

[blink182prj]

Search: Al Qaida Assassination plot

[Cold Heat]

This is the fear every time one of these things is aired.

I would say it is only conjecture based on some interesting connections between tapes and attacks on the Cole, and embassies a while back, but the connection has not happened in some time.

Most likely due to anti-terrorism efforts.

There does not have to be a message implicit in the tape. The tape itself can be the go signal, so just announcing that one has been received is sufficient. They do not need to even air it.IMHO

[Twinkie]

This tape separates the men from the boys.
The boys will vote Kerry, because that's what bin Laden
wants. He hates President Bush and is basically saying,
to anyone listening between the sentences, vote Kerry.
Who else is promising a policy change? Kerry is
promising to clear everything through the UN, and bin Laden
knows the UN despises Uncle Sucker and is a joke.

[MonaMars]

"OBL is feeling threatened by all this progress."

Possibly, but that only makes him more dangerous.

[PsyOp]

Hmmm... No mention of Spain, or Iraq, or Libya or Indonesia. Al-Queda is still doing their "Weekend at Bernies" imitation. Bin Laden is buried in a cave in Tora Bora courtesy of the US Air Force, IMHO. Until we see a tape that mentions incidents post Tora Bora, there is no reason to believe otherwise.

[hershey]

Al Qaeda has used bin Laden videos as a trigger for past attacks.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Or it could be, since he couldn't deliver an attack, he delivered a threat.

[focusandclarity]

ok, thanks.

[MOgirl]

Hello,

Totally by coincidence, this morning my husband and I watched FarenHYPE911 (put out to refute the bastard Michael Moore's lies). We bought it on DVD. I can not and will not repeat the conversation we had following watching this documentary. We both wept watching video from 911. We cried even harder watching wounded soldiers and slain soldier's families react with horror that they or their loved ones had been used to harm this country, its' armed forces and this President.

After going to my son's Halloween party at school, I worked the phone banks for President Bush and when I got home, I discovered this breaking news. I am beyond flippin' furious. UBL spouts to the letter the majority of the lies in Moore's propaganda film? Words have failed me, the emotions of today are too large and too raw to truly explain how we are feeling. God save the United States.

Glad to be here (mad as hell!), MOgirl