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This tape seems to have been made by "someone", as Powell suggests other than bin Laden, but ON BEHALF of bin Laden, and probably came right from the alQaeda cell in Iraq or Iran, and on behalf of Iraq, in the name of bin Laden

I have no way of knowing which version of the tape is correct (if either of them are), and I don't think I've ever heard BL speak. But this text has no passion or imagery; and the voice I heard played on Fox this morning certainly doesn't go with what I'd expect of BL. The voice souned like it belonged to someone much shorter and someone much younger. I'm with you. I don't buy that he made this tape.

Please forget my stupid remarks about the voice. I heard them play a bit of the tape again, and it dawned on me that BL would not have made the address in English--I was listening to an interpreter :)