it occurred to me punish the unjust the same way (and) to destroy towers in America so it could taste some of what we are tasting and to stop killing our children and women."
http://www.religioustolerance.org/false_co.htmSo,
if the Israelis had NOT destroyed the towers in Lebanon.......
Boloboffin says:
Hang your "fat Osama" arguments out to dry, folks. Osama's made an election year appearance and he claims responsibility for the 9/11 attacks.
October 30, 2004
Actually, this is the second time an obviously fake Osama has taken credit for September 11. The first time was on December 14, 2001. (See The Fake bin Laden Video Tape.) Bush is right—the tape wasn’t “doctored,” it is an outright fake. Of course, that’s not what Bush meant. “Those who contend it’s a farce or a fake are hoping for the best about an evil man. This is Bin Laden unedited. This is… the Bin Laden who murdered the people. This is a man who sent innocent people to their death.” In other words, if you take a look at the video captures linked above and arrive at the conclusion the “confessing” bin Laden looks nothing like previous images of bin Laden, you’re with the terrorists. But then truth is a threat to national security.
..... It only took the Bush administration a few hours to finger Osama bin Laden, MINUS ANY SUPPORTING EVIDENCE. As former CIA agent Milt Bearden told Dan Rather on the day after the attacks, “If they didn’t have an Osama bin Laden, they would invent one,” and this is precisely what Bush and the Straussian neocons did—they took a former CIA asset and turned him into an ominous menace in order to launch a pre-planned war on terrorism and ultimately attack Iraq.
http://www.kurtnimmo.com/blog/STATEMENT OF GUILT.
The interrogator begins the interrogation by making clear his conviction that, based on all available evidence, the suspect is guilty; if he fails to communicate this belief there is no reason for the suspect to confess.
At this time, the interrogator may choose to reveal only some of the evidence, saving other details for later to undermine the suspect's confidence, or withholding certain information that only the perpetrator would know, as a way to verify the veracity of a confession (and as further evidence that the confession was not coerced).
After this statement, the interrogator should briefly pause, then rephrase and repeat the statement with a "hook" (a leading question that allows the suspect to confess without using words). Some suspects will nod their heads at this point, effectively ending the interrogation. Other suspects, however, will begin to deny their involvement in the crime.
http://www.truthinjustice.org/get-confession.htmHmmmmmmmm
Where have I seen this type of stategery?
President Bush is flatly rejecting offers from the Taliban government to hand Osama bin Laden over for trial if the United States stops bombing Afghanistan and provides proof that the Saudi exile was involved in the September 11 terror attacks on New York and Washington.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/oct2001/tali-o16.shtmlThreats of new terrorist strikes against Britain and the US from Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida group amount to an admission of guilt for the September 11 attacks, the deputy prime minister, John Prescott, said today.
Mr Prescott, speaking while on a diplomatic mission in Moscow, argued that the latest statement from al-Qaida strongly suggested Bin Laden's culpability for last month's attacks on New York and Washington.
"What I have heard about the message given ... is basically confirming, I think, the guilt of Bin Laden, who has made it clear that he wants to continue these actions," he told BBC1's Breakfast with Frost programme this morning.
THE NEW THREATS FROM AL-QAIDA CAME FROM SPOKESPERSON SULAIMAN ABU GHAITH, in a video-taped statement broadcast on Qatar's Al-Jazeera Arabic TV news network.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,573975,00.htmlHe (Sulaiman Abu Ghaith) rose to worldwide attention following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. In October 2001 he appeared on two widely-circulated videos (first broadcast on al-Jazeera television) to defend the attacks and threaten reprisals for the subsequent US invasion of Afghanistan, saying "Americans should know, the storm of the planes will not stop... There are thousands of the Islamic nation's youths who are eager to die just as the Americans are eager to live." These statements caused the Kuwaiti government to strip him of his citizenship.
His whereabouts, as he moved around to escape capture by the United States in the following months, are unclear. In July 2003, a Kuwaiti minister announced that the Iranian government had offered to extradite Abu Ghaith to Kuwait, but that Kuwait had refused the offer. It is unclear (as of July 2003) whether he is currently in Iranian custody, or indeed in Iran at all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulaiman_Abu_GhaithBut are Abu Ghaith’s pronouncements reliable? Are they, perhaps, intended to frighten or impress weak-minded people?
It is significant that Ghaith’s statements mirror similar statements made privately among al Qaeda operatives. As a rule of thumb: when secret communications reflect public pronouncements, it is time to pay close attention. Under such circumstances, U.S. officials should be exhaustively investigating all reports suggestive of a possible nuclear attack.
When would such an attack take place?
http://www.tldm.org/News5/July4th.htmThe warnings were ``a cover-up for the ugly face of the onslaught by the Democratic Party against the Republican Party after the American president announced he was aware of the Sept. 11 operations and because of the economic problems the American government was suffering from,'' Abu Ghaith said.
http://truthout.com/docs_02/06.24C.obl.alive.htmThe statement, attributed to Kuwaiti Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, also claimed that bin Laden's al Qaeda network was responsible for the attacks last month against an Israeli-owned hotel and an Israeli airliner in Mombasa, Kenya, though it provided no proof.
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/12/08/al.qaeda.statement/ Boloboffin says:
So there you have. Al-Qaeda carried out the attacks, and Bush's incompetence and negligence allowed the attacks to be successful beyond Osama's dreams. Osama said so.
An Al Jazeera editor said the Qatar-based channel had received the video tape on Friday but did not say how. He said the tape was new but did not give any details.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6665004&pageNumber=1Bush's father thought it was a good thing to put his sons to govern states. And he did not forget to transfer (election-) forging skills from the presidents of the region to Florida to use them in critical times.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-904780,curpg-4.cmsThe next prez? Osama may decide
Posted: August 18, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern
So, the key issue is whether America is at war or at peace. And Osama bin Laden has more to say about that than any other person. If he ratchets up the terror threat to the United States and has us looking over our shoulders and thinking twice before we fly, we will feel at war and will back Bush. But if he lets up and backs off for the election, we will revert back to our peacetime posture and likely elect the Democrat.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=4001301.11.2004
For weeks now, the Republicans have been suggesting that a vote for Senator John Kerry means a vote for al Qaeda. Even bumper stickers have reinforced that message.
<snip>
Now, in the light of the bin Laden video, people are asking: why would the media savvy Saudi dissident issue a tape that could lead to the re-election of President Bush?
As conspiracy theories ran rife over the weekend, one of the most bizarre was that the man who had stage-managed the video's release was the chief political strategist of the US President, Karl Rove.
The revered American former news anchor, Walter Cronkite, said on CNN's Larry King programme that he is "inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man ... probably set up bin Laden to this thing."
pRESIDENT BUSH KNEW IN ADVANCE THAT THE VIDEO WAS IN THE OFFING.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3605967&thesection=news&thesubsection=worldMonday November 1, 2004
The video tape that was to prove Osama bin Laden was alive, apparently well and in combative mood, first surfaced on a doorstep in the plush suburbs under the Margalla Hills, on the edge of Pakistan's capital, it was claimed yesterday.
<snip>
The journalist, a Syrian, who had met Bin Laden twice before September 11 and published a book on the interviews, had also received an audiotape from the al-Qaida leader in 2002.
But the drop-offs have now become a touchy subject, reflecting Pakistani sensitivity over reports that Bin Laden is hiding in the country's lawless border areas.
Yesterday, the information minister, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, told the Guardian that the tape drop story was a "joke". He said: "It's garbage to suggest that someone could have just dropped the tape there. These days it's not possible for a guard to just take a package without knowing what it is."
Mr (Ahmad Muffaq) Zaidan, speaking from his home, said al-Jazeera's management had ordered him to make no further comment.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,12469,1340626,00.htmlBoloboffin says:
Hang your "fat Osama" arguments out to dry, folks. Osama's made an election year appearance and he claims responsibility for the 9/11 attacks.
First Published July/August 2000
"Every office you go into at the Pentagon has CNN on." And that means, he says, that a government, terrorist or advocacy group could set geopolitical events in motion on the strength of a few hours' worth of credibility achieved by distributing a snippet of well-doctored video. A government, terrorist or advocacy group could set geopolitical events in motion with a snippet of well-doctored video
http://www.rense.com/general31/pix.htmU.S. intelligence agencies concluded recently that al Qaeda — fearing its credibility is on the line — is moving ahead with plans for a major, "spectacular" attack, despite disruptions of some operations by recent arrests in Britain and Pakistan.
Officials said recent intelligence assessments of the group, which is blamed for the September 11 attacks, state that an attack is coming and that the danger will remain high until the Nov. 2 elections and last until Inauguration Day on Jan. 20.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040921-121158-2444r.htmI guess bin Laden didn't coordinate with "Azzam the American," another al Qaeda terrorist, who issued the following warning only a few days earlier:
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/cox/041031http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel04/pressrel103004.htmOctober 29, 2004
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - A new videotape that has surfaced in Pakistan threatens a massive attack against the United States by a purported American member of Al Qaeda. It is not yet known if the tape is an authentic Al Qaeda production, but it bears enough resemblance that some experts are taking the tape seriously.
The chilling 75-minute digital videotape, seen by a Christian Science Monitor reporter in Pakistan, where it was obtained by ABC News, shows a high degree of sophistication and bears the logo of Al Qaeda's video production house, As-Sahab.
On the video, the unknown man's face is masked with a Palestinian scarf and sunglasses. He stabs the air with his finger, which appears to be fair-skinned, as he delivers his warning in American-accented English.
<snip>
Ahmad Muffaq Zaidan, Pakistan's bureau chief for the Arab-language network Al Jazeera and the recipient of past As-Sahab material here, also rated the material genuine. "We have seen this style before - the translation, the logo, the scroll," he says.
<snip>
The courier who delivered the tape would reveal nothing about Al Amriki's identity, saying only that he received the material last Friday in Peshawar. He insisted it had been filmed in Pakistan's tribal belt, where militants are battling the Pakistani military.
<snip>
US law enforcement agents have suggested it could be Adam Yahiye Gadahn, an Orange County native, suspected by the FBI to be working with Al Qaeda, possibly as a translator. Mr. Gadahn, who was born Adam Pearlman, also goes by the nom de guerre Abu Suhayb Al-Amriki.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1029/p06s01-wosc.htmAl qaeda is now reduced to depending on AMERICANS NAMED PEARLMAN!!
I would say that they have most certainly lost ALL credibility.
AND WHY DO WE ALWAYS HAVE TO HAVE A DAMN GOAT?
Gadahn, raised on his family's 40-acre Winchester goat farm with his siblings, began attending services at an Orange County mosque after moving in with his grandparents in Santa Ana. In 1995,
(at the age of 14???)
he filled out paperwork declaring he had accepted Islam.
He was later expelled from the Islamic Society of Orange County when he attacked the center's president, Haitham "Danny" Bundakji.
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_adam29.f4b9.htmlFederal agents believe the man may be Adam Gadahn, a now 25-year-old American
(filled out paperwork declaring he had accepted Islam in 1995)
who was identified as a member of Al-Qaida in May.
He has not been seen in the U.S. since the mid-90's. Gadahn, whose real name is Adam Pearlman, used to live on a ranch in Riverside County before moving in with his grandparents in Santa Ana.
He converted to Islam and joined a Garden Grove mosque, where he also started working. However, he was fired at one point and got in trouble with police for an alleged assault on an official after being let go. He has not been seen since, and a Garden Grove bench warrant still exists.
http://ktla.trb.com/news/local/ktla-102904localterrorist,0,7755271.story?coll=ktla-news-112:51 AM PDT on Saturday, October 30, 2004
The leader of the Orange County mosque where Adam Yahiye Gadahn, suspected of being an al-Qaida operative, converted to Islam said Friday that he believes Gadahn is the shrouded man who appears on a videotape warning of bloodshed in the United States.
"I've known him when he was here. I recognize his voice and gestures," said Haitham Bundakji, president of the Islamic Society of Orange County in Garden Grove, where Gadahn once worshipped daily. Gadahn, 26, was expelled from the mosque after punching Bundakji in the face.
Bundakji said he last saw Gadahn in 1998 but said he is convinced because of the man's voice and the way he moves his hands. Gadahn's relatives who have seen the tape cannot identify the speaker, a relative said. Bundakji said FBI agents contacted him Thursday and Friday and were planning to meet with him Friday afternoon.
"I really regret this happened from a person who claims Islam to be his religion," Bundakji said.
http://www.pe.com/breakingnews/local/stories/PE_News_Local_adam30.57a0b.htmlA couple of snippets from the tape aired on ABC News last night, after being analyzed by Brian Ross and the network's investigative team. Ross said the tape was received by an ABC producer in Pakistan. Specialists from the FBI and the CIA also scrutinized the video.
None of them could say for certain that the tape was real - or pin down the motives of those who put it out and promoted its airing at such a politically sensitive time.
But here was a hint.
First word of the tape leaked on the Drudge Report. Matt Drudge and then other right-leaning pundits pounded on ABC to air it, while Ross and his broadcast colleagues moved methodically. The righties certainly didn't think it would hurt Bush.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/columnists/ny-nyhen294022619oct29,0,5935.column?coll=ny-ny-columnistsBoloboffin,
whose side are you ACTUALLY on?
October 31, 2004
It's absurd that we're mired in Iraq - an invasion the demented vice president praised on Friday for its "brilliance" - while the 9/11 mastermind nonchalantly pops up anytime he wants. For some, it seemed cartoonish, with Osama as Road Runner beeping by Wile E. Bush as Dick Cheney and Rummy run the Acme/Halliburton explosives company - now under F.B.I. investigation for its no-bid contracts on anvils, axle grease (guaranteed slippery) and dehydrated boulders (just add water) .
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/31/opinion/31dowd.htmlAnd as for the rest you,
in keeping with the spirit of Halloween,
here is a nice hoary tale.
Sat Aug 7, 2004 07:48 AM ET
By Heba Kandil DUBAI (Reuters) -
A group called Tawhid and Jihad has beheaded an American hostage in Iraq, according to a video posted on a Web site on Saturday.
<snip>
Unlike previous videos by Tawhid and Jihad Group, the footage did not show the group's flag, or masked militants. The American was wearing trousers and a T-shirt and not an orange jumpsuit as worn by previous hostages of the same group.
But the statement, signed by the Tawhid and Jihad Group, bore the same logo that had appeared in previous statements including most recently Saturday's threat to kill Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi.
http://aljazeerah.info/News%20archives/2004%20News%20archives/August/8%20n/FBI%20Probes%20Hoax%20Video%20By%20Benjamin%20Vanderford%20of%20Fake%20Iraq%20Beheading%20of%20an%20American.htmThe video was initially released on kazaa with titles like "new iraqi execution", the very day that the Nick Berg execution tape was released.
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Benjamin_VanderfordMr Vanderford told the BBC World Service he did not send the video to anyone, but made it available on internet share networks. The "people of the world" did the rest, he said, and the video found its way to Arab television stations on Saturday and then a US news agency.
"I THOUGHT ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE AMERICAN MEDIA AND HOW EASILY IT CAN BE MANIPULATED," he said on the World Today programme.
Once the Arabic news channel al-Jazeera broke the story, it was picked up by the Associated Press news agency "AND THEN SUDDENLY IT WAS THE 'TRUTH', WHEN ACTUALLY NO PHYSICAL EVIDENCE HAS BEEN RECOVERED", he said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3545822.stmA hoax is an attempt to trick an audience into believing that something false is real. Generally there is some material object involved, which is actually a forgery.
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Hoax