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New Osama Bin Laden video (09/07/2007): Real or fake?

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Fake		60%	12 votes	Total: 20 votes
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Was that really the world's most hunted murderer speaking on his most recent videotape filmed directly from that undetectable secret cave in Afghanistan, Pakistan or wherever? Is he for real? The guy who for years was pictured with an almost totally grey beard suddenly shows up with a jet black one obviously as fake as Groucho's mustache.

With all the latest advancements in TV technology, why does this millionaire terrorist still make scratchy videos that look like they're shown on a 1952 Philco TV set? Anyhow, are we sure this fuzzy image really is the great OBL, or some amateur Muppetry contrived by an al Qaida Martin Scorcese wannabe?

Advertisers and politicians pay millions to get 30-second TV commercials aired, while this hirsute headcase gets an hour of free worldwide exposure every time he decides to spout his idiotic philosophy. Watching this guy spout his routine is getting as irritating as sitting through 24 hours of Head On commercials.

Consider ing all that, can anyone take his rants seriously? The guy who's responsible for the murder of thousands of Americans starts out his latest tape with holier than thou religious phrases from both Islam and Christianity. Then, after vilifying American leaders for all their horrible crimes against humanity, he admits ... sort of ... that he feels real bad that he needed to kill people on September 11, 2001.

He chides American voters for electing George W. Bush to two terms as President, but also criticizes the Democrats for not taking advantage of their power after they won the Congress in 2006 to get American troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan. Hey, this guy knows more about American politics than most of the rest of us.

After all, didn't the people of New York vote an Arkansas carpetbagger to be their Senator, and are now compounding the act by propping her up for President? If that isn't crazy, then is this Bin Laden tape a hint that he'll soon appear on Leno or Letterman to announce his candidacy for President on the Nutcase Party platform? Well, at least he could count on getting more votes than John McCain.

I must end this now. My grandfather says he'll lend me his 1955 Sony 8mm TV camera for a few minutes. I need to shoot a tape to send to the ABC and all the other networks announcing my candidacy for town dogcatcher.

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Real

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by Shinobi

Osama Bin Laden: As Real As He Gets

Was the Bin Laden video real? Consider this: President Bush made reference to it and used it to make the case why we should continue the war on terror. Homeland security adviser, Frances Fragos Townsend, accused the Sheik of being "virtually impotent." News pundits have ran the video over and over; analyzing and discussing the message by the icon terrorist with no doubts about its authenticity or if the video could possibly be fake. Final verdict: it's real.

After taking a 3 year hiatus from the world stage, you have to wonder just what, exactly, the Bin Laden been doing all this time? Before September 11th hit, Osama went through a similar "disappearing act" up until those planes slammed into the World Trade Center. The fact that Homeland Security, the National Intelligence Estimate and other sources tracking this beast and not able to locate his whereabouts, sends a message about Bin Laden's invincibility. It's reckoned on a level unprecedented for a superior technological advanced country like America. Not only was the video real, Osama Bin Laden has redefine "power" and tempered it in his message and that alone is a message of foreshadowing events while easily hinting at signals to the so-called 'Holy Warriors' of Islam to carry them out.

We have no choice but with extreme focus, take his message serious than we would with leaders such as Kim Jong of North Korea, Ahmedinejad of Iran, and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. And if you still have doubts about Bin Laden's video being real, according to Ben Zenke, head of IntelCenter, a U.S. group that monitors and analyzes militant messages, a new video is "likely to be released within 24 hours to coincide with Sept. 11, 2007." These suddenly activities by Al-Quaeda leave us no time to play around over the idea if Bin Laden's video is real. The real question is, are we prepared and engaged enough to defeat them away from our homeland? That's the real issue.

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http://news.yah oo.com/s/ap/20070910 /ap_on_re_mi_ea/bin_ laden_video

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