Posted on 09/09/2007 3:57:28 AM PDT by George Maschke
Osama Bin Laden's widely reported video address to the American people has a peculiarity that casts serious doubt on its authenticity: the video freezes at about 1 minute and 36 seconds, and motion only resumes again at 12:30. The video then freezes again at 14:02 remains frozen until the end. All references to current events, such as the 62nd anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan, and Sarkozy and Brown being the leaders of France and the UK, respectively, occur when the video is frozen! The words spoken when the video is in motion contain no references to contemporary events and could have been (and likely were) made before the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
The audio track does appear to be in the voice of a single speaker. What I suspect was done is that an older, unreleased video was dubbed over for this release, with the video frozen when the audio track departed from that of the original video.
The video may be downloaded as a 677 mb MPEG file here.
He is dead Jim...
works for me - so easy today to fake such things - why do we swallow it as whole cloth?
He looks dead.
Because the Left want him to be alive. It gives them a political out to be “anti war” while claiming, wrongly, not to be pro terrorists.
The interesting thing about this tape....is that the speech and its contents are like out of a Al Gore/John Kerry speech. This isn’t the normal Osama speech that we are used to. I don’t the guy wrote it, and whoever did write it...had political aspirations in the chatter.
You could actually take three lines of the text...write them out on a screen with someone speaking them...and give a listener to pick who said it....with a picture of Al Gore or Osama....and half the time, they might pick Al.
bttt
I believe that’s true.
Bin Laden, dead since December 2001.
That was my reaction as well.
If this didn’t sound like that little puke from the left coast, I don’t know what would.
I love it ... “biggest gas bag in the terrorist world”! Indeed.
bookmark
lolol
I’m anxious to hear your thoughts on this, Dog
Yes.
Please check out the link to the story, as well.
bump for bookmark
I say it again- the POS is dead and has been since Tora Bora. It’s just too bad we couldn’t prove it then and can’t now. This country badly needs a parade...
The link to the story is the same as what I’ve posted here, except that it also has the Google Video link embedded.
Binny and Fidel have gone to see Jesus..
The link at the top of the story isn’t working for me.
It says Story Not Found
Wow. And the reason Bin Laden looks healthier and his beard is shorter and darker is because this video was actually done some years ago! Soneone needs to compare his appearance in this video with earlier videos and photos. Also look to see if his clothing in this latest video matches clothing in a video or pictures taken years ago. I assume the CIA and others are trying to discover if that voice is really Bin Laden’s.
I think they use voice recognition techniques to determine if this whole video matches voice patterns from the past. Whether the video freezes or not, how could the voice match if it isn’t him speaking?
Not quite. At least "Osama" called for tax cuts in this speech.
http://www.boomantribune.com/?op=displaystory;sid=2007/9/9/61032/95401
He doesn’t look better, he looks worse. He’s much thinner and his right eye is drooping.
I submit that perhaps it is the American traitor himself, Adam Gadahn, that is wearing the fake beard, since it is already believed that he ‘assisted’ in writing the ‘speech’.
Either way, I hope Osama gets a refund on that ‘Just For Men’ hair color kit, that is the WORST dye job I’ve ever seen!
Osama? “He’s DEAD Jim!”
“Voice recognition” techniques are doubtful at best. I have some fluency in Arabic, and the voice in the video doesn’t sound quite like the earlier Osama Bin Laden videos to me.
AKA Ass of America
I would like to know that an Arab lip reader has looked at the video and confirmed the audio translation, or at least what is possible, frozen video and all.
What I’m suggesting is that the video is old, and that a new soundtrack has been imposed on it.
“Voice recognition” techniques are doubtful at best.”
Says who?
Of course it’s a fake. C’mon now, binL, show us you’re still among the living.
I’m not a lip reader, but I know Arabic, and in the portions of the video where Bin Laden is actually seen moving, the sound and lip movements seem to match up. But again, during most of the video (and during all portions where references to current events are made), the frame is frozen.
Unbefreakinglievable, even for the Beeb. Especially the second to the last paragraph.
It’s very easy to change anything in a photograph or even in videos - well, not very easy in the case of videos, but it can be done. This is how old movies are “colorized.”
Incidentally, there was some discussion on an earlier thread about the fact that Muslims are not allowed to dye their hair and beard black. They can apparently dye it other colors, but not black. (Talk about a crazy “religion” - Islam takes the cake!) How about Binnie with a Day-Glo pink beard?
In any case, the alleged OBL in the video looks a lot younger overall than he did in earlier videos, so I doubt that the video was actually filmed recently, even if this particular version was assembled and produced recently. Binnie’s become nothing more than a hand-puppet for the fat, pimply gamer, Adam the Fruitcake.
ping
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1893413/posts?page=3#3
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1893413/posts?page=4#4
ok
that would mean they’re Christians; me no think so.
They’ve gone to see someone but it’s hot as hell where they’re at!
It has to be real! If not, what else will cable news channels have to ramble on about 24/7?
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