It's Official: Osama bin Laden is Alive

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[Ditter]

I am doubtful he is alive. There would be a video tape of him dancing & singing "nanny nanny boo boo, you missed me you missed me, now you gotta kiss me". When I see that MAYBE I'll believe the evil one still lives.

[Agent Smith]

I agree. After our experience parcing the words of Slick Willie, we should know better. This whole thing reeks of dis-information. The only real question is whether it is OURS OR THEIRS.

[VRWC_minion]

The fact that its his voice doesn't mean its not a splice job. Unless they clearly say its his voice and its not a splice job of prior speech I remain a skeptic. If we learned anything about parsing from the clinton age its cautioned us not to read into what we are told.

[Always Right]

I love headlines that exagerate the actual text........

[Dog]

Source?

Everyone has it now.

[dirtboy]

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

In other news, the US Intelligence community announced that they believe Pakistan is developing a nuclear weapons program.

[rintense]

STILL don't believe he's alive.

[SerpentDove]

>>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.<<

"Utopian crusade to abolish all evil in the world," eh? That's a new twist.

When did you dream that up?

[Hoboken]

GOOD ! I wanna see a corpse.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Bin Laden is alive? That's good-now we cal kill him again.

[glock rocks]

Bin Laden Tape Confirmed as Authentic
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Monday, November 18, 2002

WASHINGTON — Usama bin Laden is alive.

That's the conclusion of U.S. intelligence analysts who officially determined Monday that an audiotape broadcast last week was the voice of the international terror mastermind.

The tape, broadcast by the Al-Jazeera satellite TV network, was recently recorded, intelligence agents said, providing the first evidence in almost a year that the Al Qaeda leader is alive.

The tape does not appear to have been altered or edited, suggesting it is what it sounds like: bin Laden himself, reading a prepared statement promising new terrorism against the United States and its allies, said one U.S. official, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

The analysis of the tape was performed by technical experts, linguists and translators at the CIA and National Security Agency, who compared the message to previous recordings of bin Laden. They are as certain as they can be that it is genuine, the intelligence official said.

Because it mentions recent terrorist attacks, officials concluded it was made in the last few weeks, the official said. U.S. intelligence had not received any definitive evidence in a year that bin Laden had survived the U.S. attacks on Afghanistan after Sept. 11.

The tape gives little clue to bin Laden's location or his health, officials said. Although his whereabouts are unknown, U.S. officials believe he is probably hiding in a remote mountainous region in the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The Al-Jazeera journalist who obtained the tape said it was delivered to him in Pakistan.

The message also was a determining factor in a new spate of terror alerts in the United States and elsewhere last week. Previous public statements from bin Laden have served as preludes to terrorist attacks, officials said.

On the tape, bin Laden referred to the Oct. 28 shooting death of a U.S. diplomat in Amman, Jordan, and praised the bombing in Bali, Indonesia, last month, that left close 200 people dead.

He sounded undeterred by the loss of his home in the Taliban's Afghanistan or by the death and capture of several of his closest lieutenants.

"Why should fear, killing, destruction, displacement, orphaning and widowing continue to be our lot, while security, stability and happiness be your lot? This is unfair. It is time we get even," he said, sounding as if he was reading.

President Bush said last week that whoever released the tape was "putting the world on notice yet again that we're at war."

There has been concern in the intelligence community that this tape could signal another wave of Al Qaeda attacks — U.S. officials say the "chatter" about Al Qaeda action has been as much or more than what they heard prior to Sept. 11.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

[Diddle E. Squat]

He may be alive, but how many limbs does he have left?

[Trust but Verify]

The subtext: "It's Official: Osama bin Laden is Alive [for our purposes]"

I think this is a strong possibility. This Administration plays a great game of poker.

[JeepInMazar]

Here he is:

[kjam22]

The real question is what happens when you play the tape backwards.

It says I buried Osama? Osama is a dead man?

[JeepInMazar]

[uncbob]

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

So what ??????
It means his voice is on the tape and that is all

Probably make a tape with Nixon's voice on it
And he is dead

[cyncooper]

The tape does not appear to have been altered or edited, suggesting it is what it sounds like: bin Laden himself,...

Ping

[areafiftyone]

Fox News also has it as breaking on their website - Click

[Ipberg]

Since the "US Intelligence Community" includes the Department of Defence's in-house analysts (Defense Intelligence Agency) I trust this conclusion. But the CIA and FBI have thoroughly discredited themselves, I'm afraid.