[colorado tanker]

I'm coming around to the "dead" view myself. This tape looks like a splice job intended to give the appearance to the faithful and to the West that Binny is still alive. If he really were, Al Jazeera would be playing fresh tape to whip everyone up. The remaining senior leadership must doubt they can hold the network together if they announce his "martyrdom."

Actually, the best evidence is that if you play the tape backwords at 33 1/3 rpm you can hear "Osama is dead."

[freethinkingman]

Yes the tape is a phony.

I used to work as a video tech and used a SEG (special effects generator)The tapes bg is definately chroma-keyed.

The Chroma Key process is based on the Luminance key. In a luminance key, everything in the image over (or under) a set brightness level is "keyed" out and replaced by either another image, or a color from a color generator.

This process is also known as blue-screen imaging.

[SkiBum]

Perhaps the tape is meant to mislead us into thinking that Bin Laden is dead. Once his death is proclaimed by the West he intends to reappear as if risen from the dead.