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State Department Tried to Stop Airing of Bin Laden Tape
Associate Press ^ | October 29, 2004 | Barry Schweid

Posted on 10/29/2004 5:12:30 PM PDT by focusandclarity

State Department Tried to Stop Airing of Bin Laden Tape

WASHINGTON (AP) - The State Department on Friday urged the government of Qatar, which finances Al-Jazeera, not to broadcast a videotaped speech by Osama bin Laden, a senior State Department official said. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the State Department spoke to officials in Qatar before Al-Jazeera showed a portion of the tape. In it, the al-Qaida leader said the United States can avoid another attack if it stops threatening the security of Muslims.

The request to the Persian Gulf government, which is considered an ally in the U.S. campaign to counter terror, was passed through the U.S. embassy in Doha, Qatar's capital.

Secretary of State Colin Powell and other Bush administration officials have appeared in Al-Jazeera interviews, although the State Department has occasionally denounced the network as biased against the United States. The reason for going on these programs is to convey the U.S. message to the Arab world, the official said.

AP-ES-10-29-04 1903EDT


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: binladen; obltape; statedept; terroristattacks
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To: Doe Eyes
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.

61 posted on 10/29/2004 6:43:55 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: Starboard
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....

62 posted on 10/29/2004 6:51:59 PM PDT by mlocher (america is a sovereign state)
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To: Kay Ludlow
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.

63 posted on 10/29/2004 7:03:14 PM PDT by Doe Eyes
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To: Verginius Rufus
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.

64 posted on 10/29/2004 7:06:58 PM PDT by Kay Ludlow (Free market, but cautious about what I support with my dollars)
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To: Verginius Rufus
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.

65 posted on 10/29/2004 7:10:50 PM PDT by livius
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To: Doe Eyes
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...

66 posted on 10/29/2004 7:11:18 PM PDT by Kay Ludlow (Free market, but cautious about what I support with my dollars)
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To: Dog

Election day bombings in swing states?

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


67 posted on 10/29/2004 7:56:29 PM PDT by Finalapproach29er ({about the news media} "We'll tell you any sh** you want hear" : Howard Beale --> NETWORK)
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To: tiki

They're moon worshippers.

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

My gut is in a knot.


68 posted on 10/29/2004 7:59:26 PM PDT by Finalapproach29er ({about the news media} "We'll tell you any sh** you want hear" : Howard Beale --> NETWORK)
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To: focusandclarity

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


69 posted on 10/29/2004 8:02:27 PM PDT by blink182prj
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To: Dog Gone

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.


70 posted on 10/29/2004 8:04:08 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Kerry is a Nuanced Nuisance!)
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To: blink182prj

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


71 posted on 10/29/2004 8:09:41 PM PDT by focusandclarity
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To: focusandclarity

Search: Al Qaida Assassination plot


72 posted on 10/29/2004 8:13:53 PM PDT by blink182prj
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To: focusandclarity
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

73 posted on 10/29/2004 8:16:50 PM PDT by Cold Heat (http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/staticpages/index.php?page=20040531140357545)
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To: Dog Gone

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.


74 posted on 10/29/2004 8:17:17 PM PDT by Twinkie
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To: Starboard

"OBL is feeling threatened by all this progress."

Possibly, but that only makes him more dangerous.


75 posted on 10/29/2004 8:18:22 PM PDT by MonaMars
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To: focusandclarity

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.


76 posted on 10/29/2004 8:18:34 PM PDT by PsyOp (Any man can make a mistake; only a Democrat keeps making the same one.)
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To: anniegetyourgun

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


77 posted on 10/29/2004 8:19:35 PM PDT by hershey
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To: Dog

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


78 posted on 10/29/2004 8:23:10 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Time to let slip the dogs...)
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To: blink182prj

ok, thanks.


79 posted on 10/29/2004 8:24:04 PM PDT by focusandclarity
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To: Verginius Rufus
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
80 posted on 10/29/2004 8:24:27 PM PDT by MOgirl (In memory of Walton Wayne Callahan, I love you forever.)
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