[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.

[colorado tanker]

Thanks for the info. It appears the producer wanted to obscure any evidence pointing to a date of production, which probably means it wasn't produced post-December. It also must mean it wasn't produced in the mountains of the Paki frontier, but in a video studio - did Al-Qaeda's buddies in Al-Jazeera help out??