[DoughtyOne]

This rather hilarious since they've already aired them for the last week. I welcome the idea that they won't in the future but question the reasoning behind playing them over and over for as long as they did.

[the crow]

As I recall several people here on FR mentioned this possibility about 4 seconds after the tape aired. Good to know the Cabinet members are lurking. It just takes them a while to catch on, I guess.

[Nouge]

Just a random question... why does it seem that only Fox (and the FBI) spells Osoma bin Laden with a "U"?

[SAMWolf]

[Dengar01]

What about PMS-NBC? Anyway it looks like maybe the government is listening to Michael Savage because he called for this yesterday... Wow!

[monkeywrench]

Wonder if he planned on biting his lip, or wearing a tie?

[justlurking]

They need to be careful about even summarizing a video. Anything could be a pre-arranged signal: what he says, where he is, what he wears, who is standing next to him.

They should report that he released another video. End of report. It won't stop reporting from foreign news services (which can be heard on a shortwave radio), but it will put an end to this potential communication channel.

[Texas Mom]

I for one am not interested in anything this these murdering B**tards have to say anyway..

[shezza]

At the Ari Fleischer press conference there were a few questions with a sort of hurt, "but that's not fair" tone to them coming from the reporters. You can bet that for some (if not most) of these people, the "right to know" ought to supercede national security every day of the week. Reminds me of the Peter Jennings et al round table in which they declared that they were journalists first and Americans second (in response to the hypothetical scenario that if they were covering a war and saw that a group of American soldiers heading into an enemy ambush, would they warn the soldiers or film the ambush).

(One of my prized possessions is a letter from Ronald Reagan re: his ban on reporters during the Grenada invasion...as a reporter myself, I sent him a letter telling him I supported his decision entirely, that national security was far more important that some journalist winning an award for on-the-spot coverage. He wrote back to thank me and wished that I was in the Washington press corp. I love that guy.)

[smiley]

Well, it's ABOUT TIME someone used their brain on this!

[dead]

I know I'm in the minority, but I think this whole threat about secret messages is overblown. I mean what the hell message is he sending out beyond, "Try to kill a bunch of Americans and try not to get caught first."

[mykdsmom]

Sen. John Edwards, R-N.C.

Fox messed up on this, John Edwards the "new" Bill Clinton in training is no where NEAR a R.

MKM

[RickGee]

I guess I'm in the minority also. This is simply a call for censorship without having the guts to come right out and get a law passed to do it. (I don't think it could be constitutional anyway.) In this day of the internet, it is the military/government's responsibility to cut off the communications of an enemy.