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'Bin Laden tape' says al-Qaeda behind Christmas plot
BBC News ^ | January 24, 2010 | Staff

Posted on 01/24/2010 4:32:40 AM PST by MaestroLC

A tape said to be from Osama Bin Laden says al-Qaeda was responsible for a Christmas plot to blow up a plane.

In the newly released audio tape aired on al-Jazeera, Bin Laden also warns the US there will be more attacks if it continues to support Israel.

"If it was possible to carry our messages to you by words we wouldn't have carried them to you by planes," the tape says.

The authenticity of the tape has not been verified.

It says: "The message sent to you with the attempt by the hero Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is a confirmation of our previous message conveyed by the heroes of September 11."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; binladen; christmas; elvisbinladen; flight253; jihadinamerica; osama; plot; terror

1 posted on 01/24/2010 4:32:40 AM PST by MaestroLC
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To: MaestroLC

I wonder when the DNC is going to start making Ted Kennedy tapes telling us how health care reform will save us?


2 posted on 01/24/2010 4:37:01 AM PST by raybbr
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To: MaestroLC

Since we haven’t really supported Israel since Obama was elected, I guess this is proof that Al Quaida is going to attack us regardless.


3 posted on 01/24/2010 4:38:07 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: MaestroLC
This is a plot by the just say no Republicans to further embarrass our President, especially after the week he has just had.

Big sarcasm

4 posted on 01/24/2010 4:42:25 AM PST by pennboricua
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To: pennboricua

This is either wrong or fake. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was an “isolated extremist” according to our Dear Leader.


5 posted on 01/24/2010 4:47:12 AM PST by no_go_lie
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To: MaestroLC

6 posted on 01/24/2010 4:56:27 AM PST by MuttTheHoople (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9c/TeddyVWad.jpg)
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To: MaestroLC

Obama will respond by assuring the world that no matter what happens, all attackers who manage to survive will be read their Miranda rights.


7 posted on 01/24/2010 5:03:25 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Big government more or less guarantees rule by creeps and misfits.)
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To: MaestroLC
“Can't we all just get along” Diplomacy— Epic Fail.
8 posted on 01/24/2010 5:09:35 AM PST by Shqipo (I am snowed in for the duration.)
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To: MaestroLC

Since Panty Bomber was immediately mirandized and lawyered up- it makes it a lot more difficult to ascertain whether or not he was part of alquaeda, another group or was a freelance individual.

It certainly makes sense for Bin Ladin et al to claim credit under the circumstances, regardless of the actual facts one way or another.


9 posted on 01/24/2010 5:11:55 AM PST by I_Like_Spam
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To: MaestroLC
Another Bin Laden video tape?

"It was ME..."

10 posted on 01/24/2010 5:17:54 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: MaestroLC
"warns the US there will be more attacks if it continues to support Israel."

See, "It is not Guantanamo, stupid!"

11 posted on 01/24/2010 5:21:13 AM PST by LZ_Bayonet (There's Always Something.............And there's always something worse!)
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To: MaestroLC

Damn...hope this doesn’t interfere with the golf game.


12 posted on 01/24/2010 5:25:44 AM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: MaestroLC
I note this is from the BBC.

As I don't have cable, can someone tell me if this is plastered all over the channels the way it was when Bush was president? Or is the media engaged in circling the wagons around our incompetent leader, as usual?

13 posted on 01/24/2010 5:30:24 AM PST by I still care (A Republic - if you can keep it. - Ben Franklin)
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To: MaestroLC
Thank God the Obama Administration's High Value Target Interrogation Team got their hands on the underwear bomber...NOT!

F*CKERS!
14 posted on 01/24/2010 5:45:05 AM PST by CaptSkip
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To: MaestroLC
DEAD for over 8 years
15 posted on 01/24/2010 5:45:05 AM PST by ASA Vet (Iran should have ceased to exist Nov 5, 1979, but we had no president then either.)
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To: MaestroLC
This should give added "legs" to this story and more ammunition to Senator McConnell et.al. in getting to the bottom of the question: Who Gave the Christmas Day Bomber the Right to be Silent?.
16 posted on 01/24/2010 5:51:05 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: MaestroLC

If true, part of me is asking “is this all you can do”, while the other part is saying “it’s a diversion from something big he is planning.”


17 posted on 01/24/2010 5:58:20 AM PST by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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To: raybbr

This is what concerns me the most. We’re excited about Scott Brown and the possibilities in November, but our fearless leaders are standing around with their pants down around their ankles when it comes to security. They’re pretending terrorism doesn’t exist. I think bin laden is scheming something much bigger than another plane bomb.


18 posted on 01/24/2010 6:06:15 AM PST by albie
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To: MaestroLC

Odd this so-called Osama would take credit for a FAILed (through no thanks of security orgs/regs) terrorist attack.


19 posted on 01/24/2010 6:50:29 AM PST by Moonlighter (.)
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To: MaestroLC

Effectiveness increased for this tape well-timed, between the British terror level increase and the upcoming State of the Union speech.

Barry being so smart should be able to find bin Laden and talk him out of these threats. We all know that Barry could organize a better “world community”. /sarc


20 posted on 01/24/2010 6:53:33 AM PST by LurkedLongEnough
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additional:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2436011/posts


21 posted on 01/24/2010 7:02:02 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
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To: MaestroLC

Obama DOES NOT support Isearl. If he DID, Hamas wouldn’t have ENDORED his toffee colored behind. The election’s over, it’s too late to vote, so shut up Binny, and crawl back into your grave.


22 posted on 01/24/2010 7:36:25 AM PST by cake_crumb (Can we impeach him NOW??)
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To: cake_crumb

Israel.


23 posted on 01/24/2010 7:40:54 AM PST by cake_crumb (Can we impeach him NOW??)
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To: LurkedLongEnough

and the Sunday talk show circuit


24 posted on 01/24/2010 7:56:15 AM PST by Moe Tzadik
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To: M Kehoe

He’s alive!


25 posted on 01/24/2010 7:56:52 AM PST by b4its2late (Before you can control a horse, you have to break it. Sound familiar?)
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To: COBOL2Java
3 square meals and 5 prayer kneels a day for terrorists.

Obama means business!

26 posted on 01/24/2010 8:01:56 AM PST by Carling (Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing its idiot.)
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To: MaestroLC

27 posted on 01/24/2010 8:02:38 AM PST by Vaquero (BHO....'The Pretenda from Kenya')
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To: MaestroLC

I thought Obama was going to do whatever it takes to get OBL. Did he let him “slip away”? Bwahahahaha ;-(


28 posted on 01/24/2010 8:32:33 AM PST by rhombus (i)
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To: MaestroLC

Why do I have this feeling that we must know if Bin Laden is alive or not. Voice recognition evaluation would easily authenticate the voice.

I think he’s dead, but he is better thought to be alive than dead and martyred.

Is there anyone on FR who has the capabilities of taking known voice records of him and compare with the one released now?


29 posted on 01/24/2010 8:44:56 AM PST by nikos1121 (Praying for minus 24 today....at least minus 23...)
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To: MaestroLC

I still can’t believe how technologically advanced this 300 year old is.


30 posted on 01/24/2010 8:48:53 AM PST by I Hate Obama ("Sorry I had a fight in the middle of your Black Panther Party." -Forest Gump)
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To: no_go_lie

That’s right, he wasn’t part of any larger terror network, nor did he ascribe to any.

Nothing here...move on...

Thank you Mr. President for keeping us safe. Can’t wait to hear your State of the Union speech. What will that be #423 speech of your presidency?

You’re going to go down in history as one of the great ones. I can’t wait until you’re tested, so we’ll see how you respond in a real crisis.

Good thing Abdulmutallab didn’t succeed, because if he had brought that plane down... WOOOOO LOOK OUT!!!! you would have really done those terrorists in.


31 posted on 01/24/2010 8:48:56 AM PST by nikos1121 (Praying for minus 24 today....at least minus 23...)
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To: MaestroLC

img src<”http://therelativeabsolute.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/frankenstein_monster_boris_karloff.jpg";>

It’s ALIVE!


32 posted on 01/24/2010 8:49:54 AM PST by I Hate Obama ("Sorry I had a fight in the middle of your Black Panther Party." -Forest Gump)
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To: no_go_lie

Bin Laden is dead, anyway.


33 posted on 01/24/2010 10:01:59 AM PST by worst-case scenario (Striving to reach the light)
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To: MaestroLC

It is Bush’s fault.


34 posted on 01/24/2010 10:39:02 AM PST by MtnClimber (Be a Patriot, contribute to Free Republic today!)
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To: MaestroLC
Isn’t it funny that any ham-and-egger can get a video of his uncle falling into the kiddie pool up on youtube in about 45 seconds, but Bin Laden hasn’t appeared in an anyway convincing video in more than five years?

He’s dead, Jim.

35 posted on 01/24/2010 12:08:31 PM PST by South Hawthorne (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: albie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkeAzqhlkNk


36 posted on 01/24/2010 12:14:23 PM PST by JustPiper ("New RepubliCan Patriot" {{{ ILLINOIS PRIMARY 2-2~ Get rid of RINO Kirk }}})
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To: MaestroLC

Campaign slogan:

Do you feel safer with a government that gives terrorists lawyers, before questioning them?

That is what democrats want. Do you want a democrat?


37 posted on 01/24/2010 12:18:10 PM PST by truth_seeker
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To: Owl_Eagle
Bin Laden hasn’t appeared in an anyway convincing video in more than five years

We should be so lucky to see Obama that often.

38 posted on 01/24/2010 1:18:36 PM PST by taraytarah (Our Constitution must be defended and protected from all domestic enemies.)
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