CIA, FBI Authenticate New Qaeda Terror Tape; ABCNEWS Executives Consider Political Implications of Airing

Drudge has his screaming siren going.

ABCNEWS has to be very careful reporting this NEWS because it might affect the election. A NEWS organization can't just go around reporting NEWS willy nilly.

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One ABC source, who demanded anonymity, said Thursday morning, the network was struggling to find a correct journalistic "balance."
"This is not something you just throw out there while people are voting," the ABC source explained.

Just another example of the main news media being pro left and anti-American
Here is what there message said after I deciphered it.
We cant report it because it may hurt Kerry’s bid for the Presidency.
Why would the American people be interested in anything that’s not anti-Bush.
We stand by our colleagues at cBS news and we will only report anti-Bush news.

"This is not something you just throw out there while people are voting,"

Nope. They throw out things like:

Bogus memos, even after Bush's NG record has been raked over in 4 different elections and NO inconsistencies found- except in the testimony of those opposed to him. (When Will Kerry sign that Form 180? Bush did)

Missing explosives... too bad we learned the truth of that story before it even hit the nightly noose. That they were hauled off before our troops even saw the first of Bagdad's minarets...

Gah. I have a headache. Anyone care to add to this list?

OT:

Dear Mr. Spencer:

I would just like to share with you and anyone else reading this thread (I am assuming that Mr. Spencer may read this) some recent information that I have come across regarding Islam that may be of interest.

At this site, http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD80704, can be read the very interesting comment of Salman Masalha on the absence of Muhammad's first wife from the prophetic ahadith record; as he states:

[In contrast], look how the tribal Arab Islamic heritage expunged women from its history. How, for example, can we interpret the absence of [Muhammad's wife] Khadija bint Khawailid from the prophetic traditions? She lived with the Prophet for a quarter of a century, and he did not marry other women when he lived with her during this formative and sensitive era of Islamic history. How is it that no tradition is related on her authority stating that the Prophet said or did this or that? Did Khadija speak with no one? Did none hear a single word about the Prophet from her lips for an entire quarter-century?..."

This observation is very interesting and I cannot remember ever having read anything like this before.

From another direction, we have more honest Muslim talk coming from Iran's Ayatollah 'Ali Meshkini; the video of Mr. Meshkini's talk can be viewed here; the transcript excerpt I post below is from clip #306.

http://www.memritv.org/

The transcript, alone, is available here:

http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=306

Ayatollah 'Ali Meshkini: It is currently under complete American control. You should know: Wherever America set foot, it brought corruption, forgery, plundering, massacre, and looting. Allah willing, I hope our people will examine the Koran carefully to see what it tells the Muslims about the infidels, how God mentions the hostility and hatred of every single one of them, and what the Koran recommends the Muslims [to do] about the infidels. Allah willing, you will study and know.

Yes, Mr. Meshkini we "...will study and know."

On another note, I am reading Daniel Pipe's Slave Soldiers and Islam: The Genesis of a Military System. Mr. Pipes makes note of a number of factors that led to the development of the military slave system in Islam. However one observation he makes, which still has relevance today, is as follows:

I argue that the key [to the development of a system of military slavery] lies in this fact: insiders relinquished power and allowed outsiders to take it up. Outside soldiers and rulers were always in the wings in premodern times; the strking feature of Islamdom was not the presence of marginal area soldiers but the absence of insiders. The peculiarity lay with the insiders who did not rule more often. Had Muslim insiders wished to participate, no one could have prevented them; the fact that they did not points to their relinquishment of power, which then made rule by outsiders possible. Adherence to the ideals of Islam did not cause an abundance of outsiders in authority but a dearth of insiders who wished to assume it.

Pipes, Daniel, Slave Soldiers and Islam: the Genesis of a Military System (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981), p. 87


I remember before the liberation of Iraq started and the Press and Rumsfeld [Okay no stupid questions until I have my coffee]was saying that trucks were leaving the Country[saw on cspan and many other news networks] and this is when we were messing with France and Powell’s daughters wedding??

Putin Needs to Fire some people there are People at work trying to divide us again for the sake of the Children in Beslain do not let this happen Please President Putin Fire those who were involved this will save our Al and we Know you had been Lied to!!

All the pali money is on it’s way to Paris? Sneaky old Devil ? Why did not go to an Arab hospital?
Libs [Democrats in Milwaukee Wi. Kids in school[making] go door t door for kerry YES during class time?? SHAME SHAME!!!
Poland Said it will not cut and run!! They Know this Fight!!

Japan said they will not cut and run and we know their spunk just watch spike TV tonight!!
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God Bless the USA and her FIGHTING FORCES and ALL who Fight with her give them Strength,Wisdom,Sight and Courage to stay the course to Victory to Defeat Islamic Terrorist and ALL who Support them Amen

Did Bush get Osama Bin Laden?
The master mind behind 9/11 is still at large.
Didn't George want to smoke him out?
He had three years time.
How could be anything else more important?
Iraq was easier to find than Osama. But the easy way
is not always the right way.

We knew right where Japan was. Why did we have to go and fight in the Phillipines?

Possibly because, like today, the enemy was in more than one country... and guess what? Both Germany and Japan had agents/cells in the US, also.

millersam wrote:


Did Bush get Osama Bin Laden?....How could be anything else more important?


They hung Jesus on a cross. Did you notice how effective that was at stopping the Christian movement?

RevBenny

millersam

Ok lets get this straight, we are only voting for the President. We are not voting or replacing any of our military intelligence, FBI, CIA. It is the military intelligence that looks for and finds Osama Bin Laden, AKA : Usama Bin Muhammad Bin Ladin, Shaykh Usama Bin Ladin, the Prince, the Emir, Abu Abdallah, Mujahid Shaykh, Hajj, the Director.

If Mr Kerry makes it to the White House he will also be using the same military intelligence that President Bush is using today. but Kerry has a plan? He just wont tell us it’s the Bush plan, But with better excuses!

From http://www.realdemocracy.com/onarail.htm
PRESIDENT Bill Clinton turned down at least three offers involving foreign governments to help to seize Osama Bin Laden after he was identified as a terrorist who was threatening America, according to sources in Washington and the Middle East.

June 25, a 5,000lb truck bomb ripped apart the front of Khobar Towers, a US military housing complex in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The explosion killed 19 American servicemen. Bin Laden was immediately suspected.

A second offer to get Bin Laden came unofficially from Mansoor Ijaz, a Pakistani-American millionaire who was a donor to Clinton's election campaign in 1996. On July 6, 2000, he visited John Podesta, then the president's chief of staff, to say that intelligence officers from a Gulf state were offering to help to extract Bin Laden

The last thing America needs is another Democrat in the House.

No Islam, Know Peace

Did Bush get Osama Bin Laden?
The master mind behind 9/11 is still at large.
Didn't George want to smoke him out?
He had three years time.
How could be anything else more important?
Iraq was easier to find than Osama. But the easy way
is not always the right way.

Posted by: millersam at October 28, 2004 01:55 PM


I aint seen no VIDEO OF ubl [SINCE TORA BORA DEC 2001 YELLOW COWARD]

NOW PUT THE DOTS TOGETHER!! Monsters ego loves to show his followers video? Lots of Video? Now we have a BIG Battle YEA LOTS OF TERRORIST DEAD!!

For 3 Years and no new Video just his # 2 guy??

MEAN WHILE BACK AT THE RANCH MORE TERRORIST DEAD YEA DEAD DON'T COME BACK!!

Now is he the only Terrorist No will this go on YEA and YOU WILL NOT HELP BECAUSE YOU CAN'T SEE THE NOSE ON YOUR FACE!!

WERE YOU ONE OF THE 70% OF THE AMERICANS POLLED WHO WANTED TO TAKE OUT SADDAM[FOUND IN A HOLE DON'T SHOOT I'M A YELLOW COWARD]

I BET YOU WOULD COMPLAIN ABOUT THE GIFT OF A CAR LIKE THE PEOPLE ON OPRAH!!


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God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and ALL who Fight with her give them Strength,Wisdom,Sight and Courage to stay the course to Victory to Defeat the Islamic Terrorist and ALL who Support them Open the Eyes of the World to their Threat Amen

It really is silly to see "broadminded" Liberals focusing all of their attention on such a narrow target as OBL when the environment is target rich.

I am amused to no end.

Turns out it was France that kerry talked to on the un conc.

And lets look at France can't find their Reporters and they have good relations with the Terrorist???

Bar you got that right These as-holes just hate the people who protect them look at time past and the shooting of firefighters? look at the attacks on police?? and i Remember in Calf signs on lawns saloirs and dogs keep off grass and I aint that old!!

If things were to get like Europe[no guns] and the mussis start the roving rape gangs who would they call??the French OH! YEA! that is happen there not here!!


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God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and ALL who Fight with her give them Strength,Wisdom,Sight and Courage to stay the Course to Victory to Defeat the Islamic Terrorist and ALL who Support them Open the Eyes of the World to their Threat and give them Strength to stand and Fight Amen

We are so cowed in this country. Think about it. The President of the United States stated that he believes that Muslims and Christians worship the same God and that both religions are our own ways to God. I am not sure but it wouldn't surprise me if Kerry has said the same thing but I'm not certain.

Why do bring this up here?
It is nothing short of heresy for a Christian to even infer that there is any other way to the Father other than through the Son. Muslim theology and Christian theology are about as compatible as water and metallic sodium and George Bush knows this. He no more believes that Allah equates to the Christian Trinity than the man in the moon.

As long as they continue to play act that Muslims and Christians are all “children of Abraham” blah, blah, blah, with common roots and common ideals, the truth isn’t going to get out there and be believed.

The next time one of our politicians wants to have a Muslim experience they should be made to participate in an Islamic stoning. They should be made to pick up a rock with the rest of the mob and throw it a half buried, bound, and helpless person who has broken one of Allah’s wonderful laws, like getting pregnant out of wedlock.

f.g.

This just in.

A blast at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad. People are dead and 'officials' of our 'ally in the war on terror' already know that it was just a 'short circuit'

Here is a link to the initial BBC story, which did not even deserve a 'Breaking News' category: you know, just a 'short ciruit'.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3963243.stm

Sorry, no reports of dead yet. I retract. But looks fishy to me.

yahudimrevenge~ That one is going out in my Otter Update. In the next couple of minutes... God. If ever there was a time to get out the Vote, this one is it.

I think you guys are all smoking something (or perhaps eating oxycontin?)

The news media is covering, all right... FOR BUSH. If it was hyped up that we were about to be attacked by Bin Laden, AGAIN, on Bush's watch, AGAIN, it would make Bush look bad, and people would then WANT to vote for Kerry.

Tell Drudge to PLEASE keep demanding that the mainstream media let us know just how perilous our existence is...especially considering that Dub is spending 200 BILLION (taxpayer) dollars in Iraq while "we don't have enough money" for better border/port security....

That is, if Drudge isn't busy with his "proclivities" in Miami Beach.

You are exactly right KJ, the media is covering up for Bush. I love it how these clowns try to play victim and whine about the non existent Liberal Media. LMAO, Sinclair Broadcasting, Fox News, Aol Time Warner(CNN}, GE (NBC), Westinghouse (CBS), Clear Channel are all Republican, Right Wing and Corporate media, they own and control the media and the giant corporations that run this country and world.

Anyhoo, I've posted this many times before, but it flies under the radar, so here goes again.

Osama wants Bush to Win By implication the attack is going to comme after the re election of Bush to escalate the global Jihad.

Bush is the best friend the Jihadis have, with his invasion he has expanded their influence and numbers.

He is fighting Jihadis he's creating them, he also created an Islamic Republic in Iraq (see art 7, Iraqi Interim constitution) google it.

This is what Imad Khadduri,( a former Iraqi nuclear scientist with the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission from 1968-1998. He is author of the book Iraq's Nuclear Mirage} said October 7th on Democracy Now

Six months ago, when there was the Spain Madrid train bombing and ten days later the Al Qaeda issued a statement on that, that was six months ago. They said, we will ask all operations to be halted in Spain, giving the Spanish people the chance to vote and perhaps withdraw, and they did. Now, the second part of that statement, declaration, was not published, was not widespread in the west. I did translate it and send it to the Toronto Star. It wasn't published there. What did it say? In it Osama Bin Laden was hoping, was saying to Bush "I really wish that you would win next November election, because you are the only one who can convince the Muslims of the -- of the -- with your -- with your intransigence and violent approach, it will convince the Muslims that American military postures and foreign policy is against their interests. Therefore I have asked all operations to be suspended from the United States until the election. And after that, every event will have its own discourse."

SourceInterview with Imad Khadduri

kj
POOR POOR guy didn't you hear the latest up date form CBS they got it wrong theire was not all the explovises theat

the ARAB el barri die said was there??

http://www.2la.org/syria/iraq-wmd.php
A senior Syrian journalist reports Iraq WMD located in three Syrian sites
06 January, 2004
AFP
Nizar Nayuf (Nayyouf-Nayyuf), a Syrian journalist who recently defected from Syria to Western Europe and is known for bravely challenging the Syrian regime, said in a letter Monday, January 5, to Dutch newspaper “De Telegraaf,” that he knows the three sites where Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) are kept. The storage places are:
1- Tunnels dug under the town of al-Baida near the city of Hama in northern Syria. These tunnels are an integral part of an underground factory, built by the North Koreans, for producing Syrian Scud missiles. Iraqi chemical weapons and long-range missiles are stored in these tunnels.

-2- The village of Tal Snan, north of the town of Salamija, where there is a big Syrian air force camp. Vital parts of Iraq's WMD are stored there.

-3-. The city of Sjinsjar on the Syrian border with the Lebanon, south of Homs city.
2-
Nayouf writes that the transfer of Iraqi WMD to Syria was organized by the commanders of Saddam Hussein's Special Republican Guard, including General Shalish, with the help of Assif Shoakat , Bashar Assad's cousin. Shoakat is the CEO of Bhaha, an import/export company owned by the Assad family.
In February 2003, a month before America's invasion in Iraq, very few are aware about the efforts to bring the Weapons of Mass Destruction from Iraq to Syria, and the personal involvement of Bashar Assad and his family in the operation.
Nayouf, who has won prizes for journalistic integrity, says he wrote his letter because he has terminal cancer.
Syria WMD Programs Locations
36°02'02"N 37°21'03"E
Open sources report that there are at least three Syrian facilities currently engaged in producing Chemical Weapons, located near Damascus, Hama, and Safira village (in the Aleppo area).


yea this is old news some of us do have memorry even if we can't spell??

http://www.pcpages.com/ani/polgr/inani/lop/islamist/islamist.htm
In the world, there is land of Kaffir & land of Allah.

Lands of Koffar will soon or late become lands of Islam. So the globe is ours. Land of Great Satan is also ours. Great number of Muslim reside in America. There are six million Muslim in America and we consider USA our territory and part of our Islamic Land.

We must spread Islam all over Infidel Land. Whatever it will take to create the Government of Allah on this here planet, then it must be done.

We want to spread Islam & expand Islam. So we can protect the world. An Islamic World. We will overcome. We will take over the land of Koffar. The world will be land of Allah, land of Islam. We will rule the world. The world will be land of Islam. This is prophecy of Quran'e Majid.

Islam will rule the world.
Great Islamic Republic of Iran started a tradition in the world. To not be a victim of Imperialism. From 1979 until today IRI is the only stand against Great Satan. We support Oma of Islam against Koffar. It is our duty to support our brothers.
• Shi'a of Iraq are our brothers
• Shi'a of Saudi Arabia are our brothers
• Lebonese Hizbo-Allah are our brothers
• Al-Hammas are our brothers
• Jihad Al Islamiyat of Palestine are our brothers
• PLO are our brothers
• Shi'a of Afghanistan are our brothers
• Tajikistani Shi'a are our brothers
• Jihad Al Islamiyat of Egypt are our brothers
We support all the movements of Allah.
Iran is not important. Islam is important. Iran is only one country in land of Islam. Islam is the goal. We must save Islam from Evil. I am here to protect Islam. I am here to defend Islam. Iran IS Islam. When I protect Islam I automatically protect Iran.

Imam is so intelligent. He knows best. Imam knows best for Iran. Imam is not just there for Iran. Imam is there for all Muslim. All Muslim are like his children.

Imam is the leader of Ulama Al Islami. Imam is the representer of Allah on Earth. Imam is the disciple of Prophet Muhammed on Earth. Imam loves the Oma. Imam wants the whole world to be Oma of Islam.
I am the Soldier of Islam and I will do as I please. Soldiers of Islam are everywhere. World is OUR land. We roam around the world freely. We go & do what we please.

I travel to New York, Los Angeles, San Diego also. Oh yes, anywhere my heart pleases. My mission is clear, to destroy Kofr and finish Kaffir works on Earth.

I remind you of only law we care to respect is law of God. We dont respect any Man's law. We respect laws of Sharia directed by Allah as our guidance.

And the one who executes all laws of Allah on this here planet until Mahdi re appears, is my Moula Ali, Seyed Ali Khamenei, Velayat Al Fagheeh Al Eslami, our Fearless leader to save our Republic and to expand the True Laws of Islam on Earth.

We only answer to one person, Hazrate Imam Seyed Ali Khamenei my Moula & my Savior. We saw his light & his holy face as a sign to fight Kofr.

I have to enlighten the blind to Allah and to get the Muslim ready for the Final Jihad. Every year I train hundreds of Soldiers of Islam around the world to obey my Moula's orders and commands and to fight for love of Allah.
Kaffir Al Harami must die. We know no Kaffir. All Kaffir will recognise what is good for them. They will recognize Allah, Imam & Islam. Or we eliminate the Kaffir. This is our job to expand power of Sharia.

We will eliminate many more Infidels. Infidel blood must be shed so Great Satan will learn. I have no sorrow for Malounin. We will destroy Koffar, in any way we please.

Islamic Republic of Iran will be forever and you will all dissapear from face of Earth, you lowly low lives. You will be punished. We will punish all of you bastards.

You are a group of criminal terrorists living in terrorist land of Great Satan supporting Zionist Jew Bastards. I hate you and you are every thing we hate, everything Evil, everything unholy, everything great Quran warns us about.

We must battle you and dry your roots if its the last line of battle between good and evil. You know you cant win. You will never go back to Iran and your members in Iran will be all arrested and trialed.

You have no chance. See the light or we finish you.

Die bastard Die


Now do you really trust BLOW-IN IN THE WIND KERRY!!!

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PS
JTF
You get the second star of the day??

Here are some dots to play with?
get out your decoder ring??
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/003663.php#comments
Posted by: HGII at October 25, 2004 10:20 PM
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/003672.php#comments
Posted by: HGII at October 27, 2004 06:35 AM

Yahudimrevenge:

Too cool! As they used to say in the Seventies, "How low can you go?"

Gary wrote:
>We knew right where Japan was.
>Why did we have to go and fight in the Phillipines?

That was a question that Admiral Chester Nimitz asked Gary. He believed as did others, that they could simply be bypassed. The battle of Peleliu became one of the most deadly and perhaps one of the most unnecessary operations of the war and is widely recognized as so.

So please ... spare me.

f.g.

Sorry, kj, giaour, the logic you use is.... not logical. In fact it sounds more emotional, which is after all the way the DNC et al choose to do things.

On an aside: the people in Florida who seem to have Lost 60,000 absentee ballots (in a heavily Democrat county) are only planning to send back out 20,000?

Does this Not sound like a set-up for a challenge by kerry's lawyers? "40,000 people were prevented from voting! It's a Republican plot, the US mail was involved..."

Again the CIA try to screw Bush??

Why would they give Gertz this stuff about Russia??

CIA still wants one world order?
They [CIA] know that there were rough Russians in Iraq Lineing their own Pockets??


CIA shame shame shame that you would hurt the USA to line your own pockets!!!

Yea we know that there where Russians who were trying to get out when we were almost to baggdad cause we almost got him trying to make a run for the borer!! again shame shame shame

Putin we know you had no Idea so a few Public Frirings would help but better be an ASAP moment!!!


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kj and Giaour the acid you're taking will eventually make you sterile. I'm sure it's fun to mentally explore far fetched conspiracy ideas but when you come down back to reality you will see just how non-sensical your scattered thoughts and wordy ramblings have been. I'm afraid I may be guilty of lowering myself to your level by critizing you like you critize conservatives, but someone needs to call you on your BS.

Islamic Terrorist in Iraq kidnap a 7yr old boy and threaten to cut his head off unless they get 70,000 dollars what a bunch of SICK FUCKS

Yea the Iraqi People need to turn over these MONSTERS WHO WOULD KILL THEIR CHILDREN

WHAT god WOULD MAKE YOU DO THIS IT IS NOT A god BUT A DEMAN MONSTER!!!

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GOD BLESS THE COUNTRY WHO HAS HEROS AMEN
PITTY THE COUNTRY WHO NEEDS THEM

Gary wrote;f.g.~ a little help with understanding:

Well Gary, I understand your view point. I have no delusions concerning SH. I know he was a dangerous individual without our best interests at heart.

What you should try to understand Gary, is that in a time of war, when resources are extremely precious, you do only what is absolutely necessary to win. You don't waste resources (lives, money, material, support)that may and most likely will need later to ultimately defeat your enemy. You have to pick your battles carefully to do so. You have to know what your priorities are.

Are we straight now? Do you understand (understanding is not the same as agreeing, so it's ok to understand me) my view point a little better now? I don't doubt SH shouldn't have been shot in the head and thrown back in that spider hole the minute they found him. However, I don't think the thing to do was to go after him at the time that we did. I don't believe we went into it half-cocked and without an exit strategy. The lack of an effective exit strategy is exactly why GWs dad said he didn't finish off SH when he had the chance.

There was a typo in my last post (although it might have made it more agreeable to some.:) I meant to say
"I believe we went into it half-cocked and without and exit strategy." and not "I don't believe".

f.g.

WHER ARE OUR PAUL REVERS TO WAR THE PEOPLE THE BRITISH ARE COMING THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE OUR NEWS MEDIA AND INSTEAD THEY PROVE ONCE AGAIN THAT THE PEOPLE COME LAST IT IS THEIR GUY WHO MUST WIN AT ALL COST ???


BUT THEY HAD NO PROLEM SLAMING THE MILITARY WITH THE PRISON SEX SCANDEL??

SHAME
SHAME!!!

DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU OCT 28, 2004 10:44:01 ET XXXXX

CIA, FBI AUTHENTICATE NEW QAEDA TERROR TAPE; ABCNEWS EXECUTIVES CONSIDER POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF AIRING

**Exclusive**

The CIA and FBI late Wednesday authenticated a disturbing new al Qaeda videotape which warns the next terror attack will dwarf 9/11.

"The streets will run with blood," and "America will mourn in silence" because they will be unable to count the number of the dead, a man claims on the video.

Further claims on the video: America has brought this on itself for electing George Bush who has made war on Islam by destroying the Taliban and making war on Al Qaeda.

ABCNEWS obtained the tape from a source in Waziristan, Pakistan over the weekend. The network has withheld airing it, initially citing concerns over its authenticity.

One senior federal official alleged ABCNEWS is now holding back from broadcasting any portion of the video out of fear it will be seen as a political move by the network during election week.

One ABC source, who demanded anonymity, said Thursday morning, the network was struggling to find a correct journalistic "balance."

"This is not something you just throw out there while people are voting," the ABC source explained.

A second ABC source told DRUDGE Thursday morning: "ABCNEWS has shared this tape with both the CIA and the FBI as part of our reporting process. ABC News is committed to accurate, credible and complete journalism and is applying the same scrutiny to this tape that we apply to all raw information. ABCNEWS continues to report this story aggressively."

MORE

The terrorist's face is concealed by a headdress, and he speaks in an American accent, making it difficult to identify the individual.

The tape appears to be from al-Qaeda's media liaison organization. It has a banner crediting the Sahab Production Committee. The speaker refers to Bin Ladin and Zawahiri as "our leaders" and praises the 11 September attacks.

Intelligence officials believe:

Videotape message likely produced in late summer '04 due to references to current events such as the 9/11 Commission.

Individual is college educated, either American born or raised in the U.S.

The U.S. is actively seeking to identify the individual. Adam Gadhan - aka Adam Pearlman of Southern California - remains the chief candidate but another still unknown individual may be possible.

Pearlman was highlighted by the FBI in May as an individual most likely to be involved in or have knowledge of the next al Qaeda attacks.

US intelligence officials say the danger is that if this individual is an American citizen, he will be immersed in the culture and customs and have the ability to travel in America freely and unnoticed.

Developing...

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PS
SAW THE STAGE SET-UP [FOR THE BOSS AND KERRY] AND THERE WAS A MUSSI IN A WHITE CAP AND LONG WHITE SHIRT-SKIRT???

f.g.

YOU SISSY BOY WE ARE STILL IN S.KOREA,ITALY,GERMANY

AND YOUR BOY SAYS WE CAN'T LEAVE THERE YOU LIBS ARE WEARING THIN REAL THIN!!!

BY THE WAY HOW LONG DID WE FIGHT IN KOREA AND HOW LONG YES HOW MANY YEARS WERE WE IN EUROPE FIGHTING OUR WAY??

how about bosnia and kosovo we are still there and Japan too!!

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Catherine,

Go hunt squirrels or something will you?

You are a nut.

f.g.

Hmmmm, Guess we'll have plenty of time to spar over the conservative vs liberal issue post 11/2, eh? (Hopefully the election will get over by 11/3, doesn't look very likely though)

Despite loud protestations by kj, giaor and co., sad fact is Kerry's worldview and understanding of the islamofascist menace is far, far worse than Bush's less-than-perfect one. And really, I would like the US to be ppular and all amongst hi-society in Paris and Berlin, but I canlive even if it doesn't quite work out that way.

Oh, you mean CIA, FBI... um aren't these subordinates to the head of the executive branch?

Sorry, doesn't pass the BS test. Some idiot covers his head with a scarf and puts on a badly faked Arab accent, with phrases like "godwilling". SNL does a better job at this kind of BS.

Al Qaeda has NEVER, not once, made an English video.

Bin Laden himself can speak English but refuses to. I think there is a streak of Arab chauvinism there, but I digress.

Yet, suddenly, a week before an election Bush/Rove are losing, this tape magically appears.

This looks like one of Karl "The Hatchet" Rove's dirty tricks, using some Republican Youth dorks to make home terror videos.

BS. BS. BS.

http://veraciraptor.blogspot.com/

Oh, you mean CIA, FBI... um aren't these subordinates to the head of the executive branch?

Sorry, doesn't pass the BS test. Some idiot covers his head with a scarf and puts on a badly faked Arab accent, with phrases like "godwilling". SNL does a better job at this kind of BS.

Al Qaeda has NEVER, not once, made an English video.

Bin Laden himself can speak English but refuses to. I think there is a streak of Arab chauvinism there, but I digress.

Yet, suddenly, a week before an election Bush/Rove are losing, this tape magically appears.

This looks like one of Karl "The Hatchet" Rove's dirty tricks, using some Republican Youth dorks to make home terror videos.

BS. BS. BS. And I think it will backfire, since Americans don't like liars.

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You are So right once again, Mega. We don't like liars. This is why Kerry will be relegated to the dustbin of history in 5 more days.

This article is wrong: CIA does not authenticate it.

From CNN:


CIA can't authenticate alleged al Qaeda tape

Thursday, October 28, 2004 Posted: 10:21 PM EDT (0221 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- After a technical analysis, the CIA cannot determine whether a videotape obtained by ABC News in Pakistan featuring a man claiming to be affiliated with al Qaeda is authentic, a U.S. intelligence official said Thursday.

"We have been unable to verify the tape's authenticity," the official said.

A U.S. official said there were "real questions about its authenticity."

By that, the official said, he meant that it was not clear whether the tape was prepared by someone affiliated with al Qaeda and taking orders from its leaders, or whether it was a hoax.

With the presidential election just days away, officials are wary of a possible trick by an impostor.

"Without being able to authenticate it, it's just some guy talking on a tape," the U.S. intelligence official said.

On the tape, a man calling himself "Azzam the American" threatens terror attacks "at any moment," delivering the message in English. His face is covered with a headdress and he holds a rifle.

A U.S. intelligence official said the voice on the tape "does not match anyone we know of" who has been identified as being affiliated with al Qaeda.

The official said the tape was made in recent months, since it referred to the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, the same sex-marriage controversy in Massachusetts, and the report of the 9/11 commission.

Maybe YOU shouldn't go reporting news willy nilly. Your headline is false. When can we expect the correction???

"Did Bush get Osama Bin Laden?
The master mind behind 9/11 is still at large.
Didn't George want to smoke him out?
He had three years time.
How could be anything else more important?"

Good point.

As for someone else's point about makign a martyr, I think imprisonment would be the best means of stopping that. Something about walking in court in an orange jumpsuit would dispel the mythology. Killing in a hail of bullets would only serve the propaganda.

But the point is, he is better caught or dead than alive and planning more attacks. Martyr or no martyr, OBL and Zawahiri WILL kill again until we stop them. Bush has failed. Failed us. And THAT is the single reason I think he deserves to be fired. No more excuses.

When can we expect you to begin thinking, Mega. One can hope it will be before a terrorist bomb goes off in your face.

Sorry guys. Tired of small minds like the one I am addressing. Need more sleep...

My dear "mega,"

I took the headline straight from Drudge. His story still says that the CIA has authenticated the tape. Other sources, as you have pointed out, say that the CIA has not authenticated it.

I don't know which one is right yet. If a retraction turns out to be in order, however, Drudge is the one who must make it. And if he does, I'll let you know.

Cordially
Robert Spencer

to f.g.: regarding your statement: "Muslim theology and Christian theology are about as compatible as water and metallic sodium"

beautiful metaphor. hope you don't mind if i use it. will be sure and credit you. memories of chemistry lab

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