People who have followed the career of OBL (or UBL as he was first called, for Usamaa) know that over two decades he issued scores of tapes that were played in mosques and were the subject of Friday sermons all over Saudi Arabia and the Arabian peninsula. He sent out thousands of phone messages, some of which were taped. Thus, the fact that the voice on the recent tape is OBL should mean very little to a good sound analyst. To think that Al Qaida and it allies are incapable of fabricating a OBL tape is to misjudge their abilities. The fact that the most recent missive is a phone message copied on tape further confounds the sound quality.
The fact that the Al Qaida might want to maintain the fiction that OBL is alive is understandable, but why are so many Americans bent on proving what is presently unprovable?
Think you need to hone your thinking here. Why are so many Democrats bent on accepting as true what is presently unprovable?
Daschle: "We are losing the war on terror."
Gore: "We need to focus on the war on terror and finish it before starting with Iraq."
An real OBL tape can be used to "support" their contentions and legitimize their opposition to the Bush administration.