Posted on 05/07/2011 11:17:09 AM PDT by Justaham
The US has released five video clips of Osama bin Laden that it says was taken from the Pakistani compound where the leader of al-Qaeda was reportedly killed last week.
The videos mainly show bin Laden rehearsing taped remarks, but there is also video showing him watching news coverage of himself on TV.
Al Jazeera's Rosiland Jordan, reporting from the Pentagon in Washington DC, said that the video clips were shown to journalists, but the sound was removed from them.
"We did see a video of Osama bin Laden watching video of himself on what appears to be Al Jazeera," she said.
Wayne Madsen, an investigative journalist speaking to Al Jazeera from Washington DC, said that it was still difficult to confirm that all these videos do show bin Laden, as some are not clear.
"There are going to be many more questions raised after the release of these videos, because there have been videos and images in the past that were thought to be of bin Laden, but some of those turned out to be fake."
Compound videos
Earlier on Saturday, Al Jazeera obtained new footage of the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed, that showed the interiors of the house where the al-Qaeda leader is thought to have been hiding for up to six years.
Filmed during daylight hours, there is no doubt that this is the house where bin Laden was shot and killed by US forces, Al Jazeera's Imtiaz Tyab said, reporting from the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
"These pictures ... give a sense of just how Osama bin Laden - the world's most wanted fugitive - lived relatively undetected right here in Abbottabad," our correspondent said.
It was not immediately clear how long after the raid that the footage was taken.
(Excerpt) Read more at english.aljazeera.net ...
Pakistani realtors have stated that it wasn’t worth more than $250,000, if even that. They are not sure how 1 Million was ever estimated, they thought maybe by satellite things look different.
I wonder if he knew that TV cameras made him look 10 pounds heavier. Oh, well, it doesn’t matter now.
So far, the ones I’ve grabbed, seem not very credible and at the same level of amatheurish stupidity we’ve seen before. The last ones they tried were obviously with an actor - different hands, different skullshape, ring weirdness and even wrong coloring.
The more I think about this the more I don’t believe this video of Osama watching himself.
How come there are NO shots of him looking at the cameraman. Just a quick side glimpse.
How is that he found so many stations one right after another showing him??? you might see that on 9/11...but it isn’t an everyday occurrence.
that video of Obama in January might have been replayed for a few weeks..but I doubt they were playing it in September.
I can’t find any big terrorist issue right around the time of that Obama video to cause so much video of Osama.
Would his satellite provider have a search function that would show all stations that have news clips of him showing at that moment???
This video is ridiculous.
Maybe where YOU live...
Not failure. *The point*.
I suppose we’re forgetting the ‘celebrity’ added value.
It is hilarious to see Judge Judy on Osama’s TV.
What’s that thing on the table beside him by the Monitor?
I have a better TV than Osama and I am not running a multi organizational multi country terrorist operation.
This is a joke.
I found the 5 OBL Home vids online here at this link: http://is.gd/qplCIT
If anyone wants to check those out. I’ll watch all of ‘em later.
I’ve seen the one where OBL is monitoring news coverage of himself. That alone shows you how much of a propaganda war this all is. He is sitting on the floor looking like a poor, old, broken man - while the world was in such fear of him.
I found the 5 OBL Home vids online here at this link: http://is.gd/qplCIT
If anyone wants to check those out. I’ll watch all of ‘em later.
I’ve seen the one where OBL is monitoring news coverage of himself. That alone shows you how much of a propaganda war this all is. He is sitting on the floor looking like a poor, old, broken man - while the world was in such fear of him.
Looks like some kind of prosthetic ear.
Probably would corroborate with the story of barely escaping Tora Bora and having a damaged arm. Maybe his ear got blown off by shrapnel as well??
It’s an ISI-employed double.
I guess you are kidding. That photo was obviously osama.
Sorry for double comments.
My keyboard was quicker than the eye! ;)
It doesn’t prove much does it?
Griffen was visibly perturbed when he said that. BOR jumped on it, Hunt tried to spin it, but got saved by the clock. What made it worse is Griffen had lead, and BOR was claiming her source was impeccable.
No. Transcript or video posted yet. Maybe the “Premium Members” have access for a day or so first.
The ‘properties’ from the picture read this:
http://photos.upi.com/slideshow/lbox/b332ac3b7b05b74eefe959d6d6167c52/Obama-Financial-Reform.jpg
Assuming that this is from one of his ‘financial reform’ press talks, which one...that I’m not sure.
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