U.S. Officials Analyzing Usama Bin Laden Video

[American Patriot]

U.S. Officials Analyzing Usama Bin Laden Video (militant websites mysteriously shutdown)
foxnews ^ | 9/7/2007 | ap




CAIRO, Egypt — The U.S. government obtained a new video of Usama bin Laden before Al Qaeda could release it to the world to mark the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Officials on Friday were analyzing the tape, which could contain the first new images of the Al Qaeda leader in three years.


Soon after Washington announced it had the video, all the Islamic militant Web sites that usually carry statements from Al Qaeda went down and were unaccessible, in an unprecedented shutdown.


The reason for the shutdown was not immediately known. Evan H. Kohlmann, a terrorism expert at globalterroralert.com, said he suspected it was the work of Al Qaeda itself, trying to find how the video leaked to U.S. officials.


"For them this is totally disruptive that U.S. government could have a copy before their targeted audience does," he said. "They could be concerned and trying to plug the leak quickly."


Another possibility is that the U.S. government shut down the sites, but that was unlikely, he said.


"I don't think they would have the legal or technical capability to do so, to collectively shut all these sites at the same time. Also, I don't think the U.S. government is necessarily interested in shutting these sites down, unless there is something so provocative and dangerous in what bin Laden is saying."


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[ExplodedMind]

Very, very interesting. Something tells me AQ leadership is wetting its collective pants about now.

I'm also looking forward to seeing whether there is actual video of OBL, or just a still picture.

EM

[American Patriot]

Oh, I forgot to say something to OBL.

KISS MY AMERICAN ASS, I WILL NEVER EMBRACE YOUR SHIT-RELIGION.

How was that? Too forward?

[Malsua]

I like his choices. Capitulate or we'll raise the violence. LOL. If they could have defeated us, what are they waiting for? I figure, let them attack, it exposes them to the light. Cochroaches don't do well in the light.

[American Patriot]

I keep telling them, Bring it on, assholes. I want to see them invade us.

They won't they are doing it differently, they are invading us with Mexican illegals, people from Colombia, Cuba, and you-name-it-South-and-central American countries. When they ahve enough they will "change the laws".

That's our problem, we're a bunch of damned frogs in a friggin' bucket of hot water, over a camp fire.

American's had better wake their fat, lazy asses up, and get with the program, or they will be REPROGRAMMED.

Idiots.

[American Patriot]

Experts warn of attack clues in Bin Laden video
Agence France-Presse ^ | September 8, 2007 | AFP

WASHINGTON - Intelligence experts scouring the latest video of Osama bin Laden for clues warned on Saturday that his message offers hints that Al-Qaeda is planning another attack on US interests.

In his first video appearance in three years, the elusive Al-Qaeda chief mocks the United States as "weak" and vows to escalate fighting in Iraq, all the while using language similar to the kind used ahead of other past attacks.

At times, bin Laden speaks directly to Americans, using plain language that "appears to be crafted in a way as to be understood by the average person on the street in Europe or in the US," said intelligence analyst Ben Venzke.

The latest video "contains phrases ... which serve as indicators that OBL's message is part of Al-Qaeda's efforts to fulfill its requirements to provide warning and a chance for the enemy to change its ways before executing an attack," Venzke said.

However, the message, delivered days ahead of the sixth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States in which 3,000 people were killed, gives no clues "to indicate when an attack ... would be attempted," he said.

The language, saying peace will befall "he who follows the guidance," mirrors that used in bin Laden's "European truce offer" of April 2004 in which he said: "Peace upon those who followed the right path."

The similarity in terms is important because the 2004 message appealing to Europeans to change their ways was the final message aimed specifically at Europeans before the July 2005 bombings in London which killed 52 people, said Venzke of the Virginia-based Intel Center.

In the video, bin Laden also discusses current events but issues no direct threats, and offers two ways of ending the Iraq war, according to a transcript released by the US-based SITE Intelligence Group which monitors Islamic militant websites.

"The first is from our side, and it is to continue to escalate the killing and fighting against you," he says.

The second is to do away with the US democratic system of government, which he says merely serves the interests of major corporations.

"Your security is in your own hands. And every state that doesn't play with our security has automatically guaranteed its own security," he says, adding: Allah is our Guardian and helper, while you have no guardian or helper."

Bin Laden appears in the video with a trimmed beard that is apparently dyed black, hiding the streaks of gray seen in previous footage, and wears a beige cloak over a white robe.

According to Azzam Tamimi, head of the London-based Institute of Islamic Political Thought, the beard dye is a "sign of war."

The rigorous Salafi Islamic school to which bin Laden belongs "condones this dye only in preparation for war," he said.

A US intelligence official speaking on condition of anonymity said agencies believe the video is authentic and was produced as recently as August because of a reference to the 62nd anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima on August 6.

"I think people are pretty confident it is his voice," the official said.

Prior to this release, the last video message from bin Laden, who has a 25-million-dollar US bounty on his head, came in October 2004, while a CIA-authenticated audio clip was posted on the Internet in May 2006.

CIA Director Michael Hayden on Friday also warned that Al-Qaeda was planning new, large-scale attacks on US targets.

"Our analysts assess with high confidence that Al-Qaeda's central leadership is planning high impact plots against the American homeland," Hayden said.

In the rambling message, bin Laden mocks the United States for its troubles in Iraq and the effect of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

"Despite America being the greatest economic power and possessing the most powerful and up-to-date military arsenal as well ... 19 young men were able -- by the grace of Allah, the most high -- to change the direction of its compass," he said in a reference to the September 11 hijackers.

"America is weak despite its apparent strength," he says.

Believed to be hiding in the remote tribal areas along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, bin Laden verbally attacks US President George W. Bush as well as the US Democratic Party, which he says has done little to halt the Iraq war.

Bush, in turn, used the video to support the US military presence in Iraq.

"If Al-Qaeda bothers to mention Iraq, it's because they want to achieve their objectives in Iraq, which is to drive attacks and develop a safe haven," Bush said.

Addressing the American people directly, bin Laden refers to domestic opposition to the Iraq war.

"The world is following your news in regards to your invasion of Iraq, for people have recently come to know that, after several years of tragedies of this war, the vast majority of you want it stopped."

He says the Democrats who now control the US Congress have failed to stop the war, and even "continue to agree to the spending of tens of billions to continue the killing and war there."

Bin Laden also refers to recent US headline stories, referring to "the burden of interest-related debts, insane taxes and real estate mortgages; global warming and its woes."

"To conclude," he says, "I invite you to embrace Islam."

[American Patriot]

http://stoptheaclu.com/archives/2007...in-laden-tape/

There's the tape if you wanna see it yourself

[Malsua]

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2007/9/9/61032/95401

Latest Bin Laden Video Is a Forgery: All References to Current Events Are Made During Video Freeze


by George Maschke

[American Patriot]

Glad some others caught that. I'm kind of surprised it wasn't shown on the media and exposed. Oh well.

[ExplodedMind]

There are also some weird frame cuts during the video. One is at 13:13, then 13:17, and 13:19. There may be others, I just noticed these so far. Most of the tape sounds like Democrat talking points, not the usual OBL style. I think this message was written by Adam Godann (sp?).

EM

[ExplodedMind]

Another performance? Nothing for years, and now two in a row?

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/...-bin-lade.html

I take this as more evidence that OBL is dead or incapacitated. He was much too smart to dilute his message of menace this way.

OBL has lost his mojo, and the clowns currently in charge of AQ can't bring it back.

And where is Zawahiri?

EM

[American Patriot]

There's a second message coming out, unrelated to the one this last week. This one is an "anniversary" video, with one of the 19 hijackers being shown on his "good bye video" apparently.

[Jag]

First Published 2007-09-17, Last Updated 2007-09-17 12:14:48



A new threat


Al-Qaeda urges terror in West in third 9/11 video

Video calls on Islamists to take terrorism to Western countries to create climate of fear.

DUBAI - Al-Qaeda called on Islamists to sow terror in the West to create a climate of fear, in a third video marking the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States which was posted on the Internet on Monday.


Called "reasons and motives for the attacks on New York and Washington," the video features a montage of images of the burning World Trade Centre towers and scenes from Islamist training camps.


"We must take Islamist terrorism to Western countries so that it becomes a normal part of life like natural disasters," a voiceover says.


"In that way, we will have acts of mass extermination in which people will feel that their affluence also brings death... and we will have created a balance of deterrence between us and them," the unidentified voice adds.


The new video also includes clips from old voice recordings of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and his Egyptian deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri, as well as a short video clip of Mustafa Abu Al-Yazid, also known as Sheikh Said, the group's commander in Afghanistan.


Al-Qaeda already released a videotape and an audiotape featuring bin Laden earlier this month to mark the sixth anniversary of the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in the United States.

A third release had been trailed by Al-Qaeda's media arm, As-Sahab. In the event the new video was issued in the name of Al-Tanzem, prompting suggestions the network has launched a new media arm.

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=22209

Jag