So why does it take Osama Bin Laden a month to claim responsibility

[undeterred]

for the Christmas day underpants bomber? Is he just a slacker now?

[Ian David]

1. He probably has a dial-up connection. n/t

[90-percent]

24. Or

They've eliminated net neutrality in his undisclosed location.

-90% jimmy

[Arctic Dave]

2. It is hard to construct the word "underwear" out of old audio tapes of him speaking.

[shadowknows69]

4. Ding ding ding. We have a winner.

Though I must say I'm a good enough sound editor to do it quicker if the CIA/NSA is hiring.

[Cronus Protagonist]

17. +1000

n/t

[omega minimo]

13. RFLOL

[omega minimo]

31. .

[devilgrrl]

28. +1

:thumbsup:

[yellerpup]

3. He needed to take time for his cosmetic surgery to heal.

But he does look MUCH younger now.

[Swede]

5. Nasty computer virus,I'm thinking.

:shrug:

[DJ13]

6. Finding a voice actor that sounds like him must have been really hard?

[eridani]

29. Completey unnecessary with voice morphing

All they need is an old recording of his real voice, and they can have him saying anything.

[undeterred]

30. "underpants bomber"

Maybe they couldn't figure out how to translate it.

[Matariki]

7. "Osama Bin Laden" is somebody's sock puppet

[undeterred]

16. And the point they want to make is this:

Directing his statements at President Obama -- "from Osama to Obama," he said -- bin Laden added: "America will never dream of security unless we will have it in reality in Palestine."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/24/AR2010012402766.html

I doubt very much that he is still alive. But he remains a potent symbol of fear.

[smitty]

8. It's difficult to do anything promptly when your dead.

[maglatinavi]

9. Frankly,

I couldn't care less...:boring: :boring: :boring: :boring

[Sebastian Doyle]

10. It takes the CIA a long time to get the sound properly edited.

If they just chopped it up with Adobe Audition or whatever and threw it out there within hours, even the Freeps and Message Discipline LLC employees could see through it.

[Gman]

11. He's dead and the Internet connection in Hell is pretty slow.

[ddeclue]

12. doesn't want to take credit for the fuck up?

:shrug:

[undeterred]

32. Didn't even know about the group in Yemen

so he had to read up on them.

[pipi_k]

14. He's just a humble sort of guy...didn't want to look like an attention whore

probably...

:+

[smalll]

15. Being dead tends to slow down the metabolism, makes it extra-hard

to get out of bed in the morning, "to do" lists tend to get neglected, etc. etc.

[SandWalker1984]

18. Is this administration looking more and more like the one we kicked out?

Our government is still spying on us illegally.

Gitmo is still open and now 50 occupants won't even get trials.

Wall Street lobbyists are still running Washington, DC.

Congress tries to pass a Republican health "care" reform bill.

A dead Bin Laden is still making booga booga tapes.


I'm thinking the only change we got was the name on the mailbox....

[undeterred]

20. I'm not sure who is making the Bin Laden tapes.

And yes, we need to put pressure on Obama. He is a better man than Bush, but he is doing the same old shit.

[Lint Head]

19. Because Dick Cheney was quail hunting and Osama couldn't

reach him on his cell. Apparently Dick was in a dead zone.

[TexasObserver]

21. The guys at Halliburton who make those tapes were skiing for the holidays.

It takes a couple of weeks to make those things.

[flyarm]

22. shhh..dems in trouble and Obama needs "the boogeyman" now!! eom

[Slit Skirt]

23. the CIA had to remind him to check in from the dead nt

[JVS]

25. He was busy celebrating Xmas!

[ChicagoSuz219]

26. He was busy playing Mafia Wars... ;-) n/t

[verges]

27. He just got back from his Christmas hoiday. nt