by Qutb » Mon Nov 28, 2005 2:22 pm
<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>I'm confused about all these tapes. Is it your thesis, Qutb, that ALL the tapes are really bin Laden and really say what the CIA "analysts" say they do? Faking tapes would suggest they do NOT have control over the man, not that they DO have control over him. (or that he's dead) Otherwise they wouldn't need to fake them, they'd just Fedex him a script and some blank videotape.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br>My thesis is that they all show Osama Bin Laden. I don't get the part about CIA analysts - they're translated by al-Jazeera, for the most part. I think the people at al-Jazeera, and others who have met him, would be able to spot a fake Bin Laden. As for who puts words into his mouth - I don't know. Al-Zawahiri? Pir Gilani? Nizamuddin Shamzai, the Binori Town (Karachi) maulana who probably produced one of the tapes? The CIA? All possible, I guess, though I doubt the scripts are fede-exed him by the CIA to be honest.<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>I don't know EXACTLY how much direct interaction there is these days or even immediately before 9/11 between the US intelligence folks and "Al-Qaida". But I don't need to. I know bin Laden was part of a well funded, multinational Islamic merc force running missions for the US in Afghanistan and the former Yugoslavia. <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br>Exactly. In Afghanistan, in Bosnia, in Kosovo, in Azarbaijan, in Chechnya, paid £100,000 by the MI6 to kill Gadaffi... it's an "enemy" we've been awfully cozy with.<br><br>It may be more of a "symbiotic" relationship, though, than the CIA giving orders to al-Qaida. A book I'd like to recommend to everyone is "Who killed Daniel Pearl" by French investigative journalist Bernard-Henri Lévy. Lévy went to Pakistan shortly after the murder of Daniel Pearl to see what he could find out about it. The second part, in particular, is very interesting. <br><br>Thanks for the anecdote, Dreams. Interesting that US special forces would be in East Germany before 1989, too... <p></p><i></i>