(the the binladen poison gas tape)
Posted on 08/18/2002 7:38:56 PM PDT by Wallaby
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Tapes showing gassing of dogs shed new light on al-Qaeda
Agence France Presse International News August 19, 2002 Monday 9:13 PM Eastern Time
HONG KONG, Aug 19
A series of videotapes shed new light on the inner workings of al-Qaeda, including chemical gas experiments on dogs and terrorist training tactics, CNN said Monday.
The archive of 64 tapes, which span more than a decade, also show previously unseen images of Osama bin Laden and his top aides.
Virtually all the tapes, recovered from inside Afghanistan, pre-date last year's September 11 attacks, although one shows segments from televised news reports of the attacks on New York and Washington, CNN said. The broadcaster said it had shown the tapes to several experts who had told them the footage portrayed al-Qaeda operatives training in the field as they practiced assassinations, kidnappings and urban combat.
"This is not the library of someone else ... This is their history, the record room of Osama bin Laden."
Rohan Gunaratna, an al-Qaeda expert who has addressed the US Congress, the United Nations and the Australian parliament on the terror group, said he believed the tapes were intended only for al-Qaeda eyes.
"The collection has al-Qaeda videos taken by al-Qaeda of events," Gunaratna said on CNN's website.
"Whenever Osama bin Laden met with foreign journalists, he always had his own cameraman. And it is those tapes that are there, because that itself shows that this is the al-Qaeda library.
"This is not the library of someone else ... This is their history, the record room of Osama bin Laden."
CNN correspondent Nic Robertson said he obtained the tapes from a source in Afghanistan, following a 17-hour drive from Kabul to a remote part of the war-torn country.
According to the source, the tapes had been found in an Afghan house where bin Laden had stayed.
Some of the tapes are video training manuals with one showing how to make purified TNT from easy-to-get materials.
One scene shows bin Laden with his security detail firing shots into the air as they get set to announce their new jihad against Americans in 1998, CNN said.
Another shows the testing of a poison gas on three dogs.
This begs the questions:
1. What kind of gas was it?
2. Where did he get it?
God forbid the Taliban were removed from power.
Your last post to me said that al Qaeda had been warning of attacks for only a year?
Iraq Urges Saudis To Strike US Interests
Xinhua General Overseas News Service
FEBRUARY 9, 1991, SATURDAY
London--
Iraq has called on the Saudi people to strike at U.S. interests in the Kingdom, Iraqi radio said in an address to the Saudi people late Friday. 'How long will you keep silent while the dogs of infidelity are gnawing at your flesh?' the radio address, monitored by the BBC, said. The address said that now is the time 'for revolution and Jihad (holy war). Therefore, revolt and struggle, strike U.S. interests, wherever they may be.' the Iraqi radio urged Saudis to 'kill those who betrayed you and desecrated the holy shrines of the Arabs and Moslems. Rise up for the sake of your dignity.'
No it doesn't.
"Begging the question" is a logical fallacy that is often mistaken for what you think it means.
Begging the question is the fallacy of petitio principii, which is essentially the fallacy of circular reasoning.
LOL!!! i guess it could have been worse.
you could have been called an infideau.
Oh, I'm not believe me.
My guess, if its low tech, is hydrogen Cyanide. After all, it works on rats, why not dogs and humans?
Sorry...I can't help you...it's just my life's purpose to try and get people to stop misusing the "begging the question" moniker.
It may seem trivial, but you'd be surprised how many idiots on the left spout circular logic. My favorite is "If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child". (hint...to understand why that's begging the question, note you have to equate child and choice before that statement seems to resonate with truthfulness). Another one that I'll leave as an exercise for the reader is to explain why "Judge not, lest ye be judged" doesn't mean simply that one should not judge other people.
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Grrrrr....the point is don't use it. It doesn't mean what you think it means. Freepers can do better :-)
OK, now you've done it. I'll be using it at every opportunity.
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