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It's Official: Osama bin Laden is Alive
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Posted on 11/18/2002 8:41:02 AM PST by StopDemocratsDotCom

The US Intelligence community has concluded that Bin Laden's voice is in fact on a newly released tape.


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1 posted on 11/18/2002 8:41:02 AM PST by StopDemocratsDotCom
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I thought there were massive stop and restart breaks on the tapes? (a sure sign of fraud)
2 posted on 11/18/2002 8:41:50 AM PST by ewing
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I dunno - why no videos, why now (after a year) and why make such a poor quality tape?
3 posted on 11/18/2002 8:44:07 AM PST by 2banana
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Do you know why? An AlQuaida prisoner says so. Great reason to believe a tape.
4 posted on 11/18/2002 8:44:26 AM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: ewing
My reaction to this is a prayer.

We will find this monster, and his family if we have to, and all of his henchmen.

I believe he is in Iraq.

5 posted on 11/18/2002 8:44:29 AM PST by Republic
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Apparently bin laden is still alive which should work to our benefit in expanding the war on terrorism. Bin laden was just spotted in Baghdad, wait, there he is in Yemen, and now look, he's in Sudan now. Bombs away!
6 posted on 11/18/2002 8:45:03 AM PST by SamAdams76
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The US Intelligence community has concluded that Bin Laden's voice is in fact on a newly released tape.

Interesting way of putting it.

7 posted on 11/18/2002 8:45:40 AM PST by The Great Satan
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Next, he'll be hiding in North Korea...
8 posted on 11/18/2002 8:46:16 AM PST by Fred Mertz
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Bin Laden is last year's news. The war on terrorism is no longer against him but is a worldwide utopian crusade to abolish all evil in the world a la Kosovo.
9 posted on 11/18/2002 8:46:33 AM PST by Austin Willard Wright
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That may very well be Ossama's voice on the tape, but that doesn;t mean Ossama is alive.

With the wonders of modern technology, it is more than feasible to take a number of tapes, extract out words and phrases and re-create an entirely new speech, making it appear the speaker is still alive and delivering addresses.
10 posted on 11/18/2002 8:47:01 AM PST by ZULU
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It only proves that he was alive when the tape was made (duh), whenever that was, and then it could have been copied and spliced to make the final product.
11 posted on 11/18/2002 8:47:07 AM PST by fivecatsandadog
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There was a voice analysis expert on Fox last night. He had voice prints of OBL from a known tape and the recent one. He said there were large differences. But he mainly said that there was a lot of hocus-pocus involved in authenticating voices, and the techniques were not reliable.
12 posted on 11/18/2002 8:47:44 AM PST by js1138
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Gee, Thanks, Pakistan's ISI. Thanks Pashtoon warlords up in the hills of Western and Southern Pakistan where the buzzard is hanging out. Thanks Musharref that you won't allow us to get a predator up there in the mountains and finish the job.

I guess we will have to print up a lot more 100$ bills and get up there and outbid the locals, pay 'em off, so they turn over the bearded one.

13 posted on 11/18/2002 8:48:44 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo
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To: StopDemocratsDotCom
Source ?
14 posted on 11/18/2002 8:49:06 AM PST by ChadGore
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The war on terrorism is no longer against him but is a worldwide utopian crusade to abolish all evil in the world a la Kosovo.

I would put it a little differently. We need to eradicate governments that aid, abet, finance, and protect terrorists. They are waging war by not-so-clandestine means. When someone is waging war against us, it behooves us to shoot back.

15 posted on 11/18/2002 8:49:51 AM PST by sphinx
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The US Intelligence community has concluded that Bin Laden's voice is in fact on a newly released tape.

I have some old 8mm tapes of my grandfather. Does that mean he's is alive? This information does not mean he's alive. Call me a cynic but I still want to see him on video with todays NYT's in his hands.

16 posted on 11/18/2002 8:50:37 AM PST by Fzob
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The subtext: "It's Official: Osama bin Laden is Alive [for our purposes]"

And that's fine with me, if it keeps the liberals from getting traction in arguing against the War on Terror.

17 posted on 11/18/2002 8:51:03 AM PST by TrappedInLiberalHell
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To: ChadGore
Fox News just came in with the story.
18 posted on 11/18/2002 8:52:29 AM PST by socal_parrot
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"Bin Laden is last year's news. The war on terrorism is no longer against him but is a worldwide utopian crusade to abolish all evil in the world a la Kosovo."

One of the Top Mullahs of Iran was quoted as saying almost the same thing. Nice company you keep.

19 posted on 11/18/2002 8:53:25 AM PST by ohioman
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