Tell Team Obama
Osama is dead
The sudden heat in Pakistan has McCain and Obama stomping and swearing to get Osama next year.
But it seems most likely that Osama died around the time of the Tora Bora bombings in late 2001, when this video was released:
Around the same time, the CIA said it found on a Jalalabad computer another video of Osama.
But the blubbery fellow therein was probably somebody else.
True, this Fatty Osama (left above, right below) has appeared twice, if memory serves, since. He’s just doesn’t seem to be bin Laden. His nose, to begin. His jocular manner. His jewelry. Supposedly he’s writing with the wrong hand …
Moreover, he neither sounds like nor uses language like Osama, who, acccording to arabist Bruce Lawrence, speaks in an elevated, pious and poetic style most distinct. Neither Fatty Osama’s vulgar gloating over the attacks in his first video, nor the voice on recent tapes discussing world affairs like Wolf Blitzer, come close.
Lawrence has published a book of Osama’s messages and is one of Uncle Sam’s experts on his language, diction, and their meanings. During 2006 he came to think something was fishy. Then went on radio in 2007 to spread the news:
Lawrence, citing informants in the US intelligence apparatus’s Bin Laden units, told [radio host] Kevin Barrett that everyone knows the tape is fake, adding that the hoax has been kept alive because it is politically useful to those who wish to bolster the official 9/11 conspiracy that 19 hijackers directed by Bin Laden from a cave carried out the attacks.
Here’s another arabist, once employed in the 90s to translate and analyze a real Osama tape. He agrees with Lawrence, and is good to recall that shortly after the attacks in 2001 Osama told a Pakistan paper that he had nothing to do with them.
And here’s an overview of the question, including what purports to be a facsimile of an Egyptian newspaper that on December 26, 2001 reported bin Laden’s death. The next day what seems like the last genuine video (first photo above) was released.
If indeed he’s long gone, then who’s pulling our leg?
Both sides have reason to keep the hero alive.
If Al Qaeda’s behind the curtain, then …
It’s El Cid. Charlton Heston, as the legendary spanish hero in the wars with the Moors.
He dies one night, recall, in a besieged fortress, the battle far from won. So his people prop the corpse on his horse. Tie a cross to his arms and back Jesus style. Then as dawn breaks they open the gates, slap the horse’s ass … and El Cid rides again.
But if it’s Uncle Sam behind the scam, then …
It’s Goldstein, from 1984:Â the phantom jewish bolshevik terrorist on every telescreen noon and night, whose (non) existence grounds the propaganda of the police state and its perpetual war:
Edward R. Cronkite: We are at war with Eurasia and have always been at war with Eurasia. But then, a week later: We are at war with East Asia and have always been at war with East Asia.
El Cid. Goldstein. But not bin Laden. He probly dead.
So one wishes Obama would stop talking about Osama. Talk about what is and will be.
ed says:
Hmm.
1. A new Al Qaeda video is released — starring Adam Gadahn, the silly fellow from Orange County, California for whose skin Uncle Sam has offered a cool million dollars.
He scopes out the global situation and struggle.
But where’s Osama?
2. Also note that the “Blotter” at ABC News online (linked twice above) — where this and other War on Terror stories are archived — is managed by (non) journalist Brian Ross — who perpetrated the hoax that the anthrax attacks in the U.S. in 2001 were sourced in Saddam Hussein’s Baghdad.
Folded in with the Weapons of Mass Destruction hoax, Ross’s campaign helped sell the Iraq war and get it off the ground.
Ross (that is to say) is a Mossadist in deed if not name.
October 4th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
ed says:
Here’s a report of a comment by Walter Cronkite that the supposed Obama tape released shortly before the 2004 elections was a Karl Rove job:
QUOTE
Former CBSNEWS anchorman Walter Cronkite believes Bush adviser Karl Rove is possibly behind the new Bin Laden tape.
Cronkite made the startling comments late Friday during an interview on CNN.
Somewhat smiling, Cronkite said he is “inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, he probably set up bin Laden to this thing.”
Interviewer Larry King did not ask Cronkite to elaborate on the provocative election eve observation.
END QUOTE
October 31st, 2008 at 9:45 pm
ed says:
An interesting two days in the Hunt for what increasingly seems to be Goldstein.
First, on Wednesday, November 12, came a slew of insider tidibts, e.g., from former CIA mideast activist Robert Baer:
told CNN he’s talked to “a dozen CIA guys who’ve been on the hunt for him, and half of them told me they assumed he was dead, the other half said they assumed he was alive, but the key word here is assume. They don’t know.”
But the same story (fair and balanced) also looks on the bright side:
QUOTE
Cooperation from Pakistan’s military has been touchy, and most experts agree finding bin Laden is not a priority for Pakistan’s troops.
[Dalton Fury, the commander of special operations at Tora Bora], says the best route for the president-elect to take would be to change the dialogue about bin Laden. Intelligence officials do not believe he is playing an operational role and so has no reason to move around or communicate.
“I think it’s important to understand that bin Laden had his chance at martyrdom. He was in the mountains of Tora Bora, he ran away. In my opinion, I think we ought to promote this,” Fury said.
He believes taunting the al Qaeda leader may force him to prove he’s relevant and, in the process, lead the United States right to him. …
“I don’t think the American people will accept him surviving and us leaving. We will be the laughingstock of the world,” Fury said.
UNQUOTE
The next day, Thursday the 13th, when the laughter had died down, General Michael Hayden — former head of the NSA and now CIA director — sallied forth suddenly to talk in public at length about the War on Terror and Bin Laden — in other words, about Pakistan:
QUOTE
“He is putting a lot of energy into his own survival, a lot of energy into his own security. In fact, he appears to be largely isolated from the day-to-day operations of the organisation he nominally heads,” said Hayden, referring to the al-Qaeda network.
He suggested that bin Laden was hiding somewhere in the remote Afghanistan-Pakistan border region, where he said al-Qaeda has regrouped and bolstered its organisation.
Mr Hayden described “the sheer challenge of surveying every square mile of that inhospitable and dangerous region”.
“I can assure you, although there has been press speculation to the contrary, I can assure you that the hunt for bin Laden is very much at the top of CIA’s priority list,” he said claiming that killing or capturing bin Laden would deal a severe blow to the terror network blamed for the attacks of September 11, 2001.
“Because of his iconic stature, his death or capture clearly would have a significant impact on the confidence of his followers, both core al-Qaeda and these unaffiliated extremists … throughout the world.”
He also claimed that US pressure in Pakistan’s borderlands was succeeding in knocking al-Qaeda “off balance”.
Mr Hayden said several al-Qaeda veterans had been eliminated “by violence or natural causes” in the past year but he said that the hunt for Osama bin Laden was still “at the top of CIA’s priority list”.
END QUOTE
Terence this is stupid stuff …
I’ll get my 1984 and type out some of the press clippings there. Re the fiend Goldstein. Then we compare to General Haydn’s silly fare.
AND NOTE that Hayden’s comments may have been provoked by stories earlier in the day out of Camp Obama that Getting Osama was indeed going to be a high priority for the new regime.
CONCLUSION:
I take all this to mean, alas, that a full scale NATO invasion of the northwest territories of Pakistan — the autonomous (anarchic) Tribal Areas — is on the books for early next year, to be staged from Afghanistan, in cooperation with the ailing Islamabad government and its considerable army, the latter which will be coming up from the south.
The CNN segment signage?
The HUNT for OSAMA …
Everything is now clear.
Unless clear as mud …
November 15th, 2008 at 3:45 am
ed says:
This week the leading thinkier of Al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahri, often referred to as Number Two behind Osama Bin Laden, released a video referring to Barack Obama as a “house slave.”
The main point of the piece seems to be to argue against the Afghan Surge.
Where’s Osama bin Laden?
He continues to seem dead.
November 21st, 2008 at 1:33 pm