President Obama says bin-Laden is nothing but a poseur

[bigtree]

Pres. Obama says bin Laden tape shows weakness

Tue Jan 26, 2010

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said in an interview aired on Tuesday that al Qaeda has been weakened by U.S. actions, and as evidence pointed to a taped message purported to be by al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden about a failed Christmas Day airplane bomb plot.

"Al Qaeda itself is greatly weakened from where it was back in 2000. Bin Laden sending out a tape trying to take credit for a Nigerian student who engaged in a failed bombing attempt is an indication of how weakened he is because this is not something necessarily directed by him," Obama told ABC's Good Morning America.

___ On Monday, the U.S. State Department's coordinator for counterterrorism dismissed the message a grab for "reflected glory" and not a sign that bin Laden was behind the plot.

read: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60P2QN20100126?type=politicsNews


related:

Bin Laden Claims Responsibility for Balloon Boy Hoax
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-borowitz/bin-laden-claims-responsi_b_434962.html

[BeyondGeography]

1. Trash talking

I approve.

[timeforpeace]

3. Why piss him off, or give him attention?

[Matariki]

5. Because he knows the tape came from Cheney's basement studio?

:shrug:

[timtom]

7. He'll never notice...

[BeyondGeography]

9. He's not the point; downsizing him in the eyes of world opinion is positive

[bigtree]

11. right

put the thug in his place. It's a signal that this administration isn't going to elevate the fugitive terror suspects to the level (of a nation state) that Bush did when he conflated everything into a justification of his 'war on terror'.

[Name removed]

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[Leopolds Ghost]

4. Let me guess, some posts speculating on what Bin Laden IS responsible for...

disappeared.

ALL I know is that both Bush and Obama seem increasingly eager to declare Bin Laden irrelevant and not worth going after.

[cali]

6. bush used bin laden relentlessly to stir up fear.

I have yet to see Obama following suit. let's hope he doesn't.

[bigtree]

8. I think that's the point of the stream of dismissive statements from the administration

. . . now one from the president himself. It's a very welcome change to see the president refrain from reciting each and every word from the propagandist specter like Bush and Cheney would at every opportunity on the campaign trail..

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. Well, color me gobsmacked.

Speaking about terrorists like a rational adult instead of pimping out fear and hysteria? I'm impressed. :thumbsup:

[SpiralHawk]

12. "Bring 'em on. Smirk" - xCommander AWOL (R)

"Ooooops, excuuuuuse me. I forgot that, other than in the realm of republicon occultism, I am totally irrelevant. Smirk."

- xCommander AWOL (R)

[whatchamacallit]

13. Good, so we can leave Iraq and Afghanistan now. (n/t)

[SpiralHawk]

14. "Tash talk = more war = fab profits. Sneer." - xVP Dickie 'Five-Military-Deferments' Cheney (R)

"It worked for us republicon chickenhawks, and the O Man is welcome to join our wiCkEd RIGHTeous Cluckfest to help keep WarProfits mAxiMiZed. Sneer."

xVP Dickie 'Five-Military-Deferments' Cheney (R)

[invictus]

15. Osama is a CIA-invented bogeyman and his latest taped message is yet another fake.