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Posted on 11/17/2004 9:24:29 PM PST by nwctwx
You know, what seemed strange to me was that this past week or so, we've seen so many articles about Osama.
Some articles said we were close to finding him, some said we were giving up on locating him.
Then the new OBL tape surfaces...
It's almost as if several different media outlets knew 'something' was up.
Limited vocabulary. ;-)
Thanks, Neosgirl!
This is posted all over the forums, showing where the demonstrators should gather I'm guessing.
Here's more of what the jihadi forums are saying about the OBL tape. Thanks, Neosgirl.
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QUOTE=neosgirl Ok here's the rest of the OBL audio tape thread.
Around 53:00 into the tape, he seems to get more agitated/excited, and then he seems to be saying a prayer or religious stuff. The posts in the thread give more insight into what he's saying though.
A video from weeks ago, but with an english translation added. Posted by Terrorist 007
Alleged bin Laden tape praises attack
By MAGGIE MICHAEL
Associated Press Writer
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- A man identified as Osama bin Laden, speaking on an audiotape posted on an Islamic Web site Thursday, praised an attack earlier this month on a U.S. consulate in Saudi Arabia and criticized the Saudi regime as weak and controlled by the United States.
The voice sounded like the al-Qaida terror chief's, and the tape, which was more than an hour, was posted on a site known as a clearinghouse for militant Islamic comment. The identity of the voice, however, could not be independently confirmed.
The tape appeared the same day another dissident had called for anti-monarchy protests in the kingdom.
Its reference to the Dec. 6 attack in which five militants shot their way into the compound of the U.S. Consulate in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, killing five non-American employees, showed that it was made recently. Four of the attackers were killed and one was wounded in the consulate attack.
"God bless our brothers who stormed the American Consulate in Jiddah," the speaker said. "Those who were killed of our brothers, we ask God to accept them as martyrs." The attack was claimed at the time by al-Qaida's branch in the kingdom.
Also Thursday on the same Web site, an audiotape surfaced that was purportedly a recording of the sounds of the consulate attack transmitted via the attackers' mobile phones. Sirens, machine gun fire and shouts of "God is Great!" can be heard. At the end, a man recites Quranic verses and then says: "Humiliation for America the infidel and its allies!"
The U.S. intelligence community will conduct a technical analysis of the purported bin Laden tape, a U.S. official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity. The voice on the tape could not immediately be confirmed.
The speaker, speaking in calm and even tones, accused Saudi rulers of "violating God's rules," a common theme of bin Laden, who accuses Saudi rulers of being insufficiently Islamic and too close to the "infidel" United States.
"The sins the regime committed are great ... it practiced injustices against the people, violating their rights, humiliating their pride," the speaker said. He accused the Saudi royal family of misspending public money while "millions of people are suffering from poverty and deprivation."
While calling for change, the speaker scoffed at overtures such as promised municipal elections and a national dialogue Saudi rulers recently initiated to open public debate on democratization and other issues.
"This hasn't changed anything ... the best they can do is that they will go into the elections game as happened before in Yemen and Jordan or Egypt and move in a vicious circle for dozens of years, this is regardless of the fact that it is prohibited to enter the infidel legislative councils," the speaker said.
The main statement was preceded by Quranic verses, a rhetorical device typical of bin Laden.
Saudi Arabia cracked down on Muslim extremists after the May 2003 bombings of three residential compounds in Riyadh brought terrorism home to the kingdom, but has not been able to contain the violence.
Addressing Saudi rulers, the taped statement attributed to bin Laden said: "You must know that people are fed up ... security will not be able to stop them."
Bin Laden, believed hiding in the mountains along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, last reached out to his followers in October, with a videotape aired on the Arabic TV station Al-Jazeera just before the U.S. presidential elections. In that statement, he for the first time clearly took responsibility for the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States and said America could avoid another such strike if it stopped threatening the security of Muslims.
Saudi protests apparently thwarted
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/DC611AD1-D5B5-4311-A64A-3B6B95D463F9.htm
Saudi police quell anti-regime protest
http://www.albawaba.com/en/news/178419
Saudis detain protestors trying to hold anti-regime demo: witnesses
http://www.turkishpress.com/world/news.asp?id=041216131553.dfwzy5oz.xml
...snip..The witnesses said Thursday that they had heard shooting near a cemetery in the Red Sea city and seen about half a dozen people being detained by police, who were out in force for the planned demonstration.
They said protesters were seen running away as heavily-armed police chased them down alleyways in Jeddah's old town. ...snip
(6 people? "Out in force"? LOLOLOL!)
Totally off topic -- but funny as heck.
N.J. Nun Allegedly Threatens To Knock Out Pupil's Teeth
UPDATED: 7:54 am EST December 16, 2004
WOODBRIDGE, N.J. -- Officials have fired a nun at a Roman Catholic school in Woodbridge who is accused of threatening to give a sixth-grader a knuckle sandwich.....
http://www.wnbc.com/education/4001891/detail.html
LOL!
My husband says: "She only THREATENED?....That's what we used to call a 'nice nun'!
Apologies if this was posted already:
36 German schoolchildren poisoned by suspicious chemical
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?ID=34913
EBS blurb on the Country station this AM...stay safe all!
Emergency crews surround jet at O'Hare
December 16, 2004 The Chicago Fire Department is to responding to some kind of leak at O'Hare International Airport. Emergency crews have surrounded a jet parked on the tarmac.
It's not clear exactly what is leaking.
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/121604_ns_ohare_jet.html
From an article I read this morning, the demonstrations were going to start around the time of the morning prayer time.
Nothing from IPN - don't we have a TMer who lives in the chicago land with a scanner?
Karl, can you check if you're can get any information on a plane leaking at O'Hare.
see post #3213.
Plane surrounded with EMS
Union Station Activity????
Relative on-site | 12/16/04 | Self
Posted on 12/16/2004 9:04:50 AM CST by Hatteras
I just got a call. The Mother-in-law was due to leave Union Station in DC heading for Raleigh. The Station has been evacuated and police and sirens all over. I'm cubicle bound. Any info on the news?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1302658/posts
http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/1004/183972.html
Union Station Evacuated Because of Fumes
Friday October 29, 2004 8:54pm
Washington (AP) - Hundreds of people were cleared out of Union Station Friday night for about an hour because of paint thinner fumes wafting throughout the building.
D.C. Fire and EMS spokesman Alan Etter said workers were using paint thinner on the train platforms, and the fumes got into the building's ventilation system. The result was a chemical odor throughout the complex.
Firefighters had to air out the building.
The train station, metro station, shops and restaurants were evacuated shortly after seven p.m., but people were allowed back in about an hour later. No serious injuries were reported.
10/29/04
DISREGARD POST #3218, PLEASE.
OLD ARTICLE.
(Thanks, Slowboat)
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