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Bin Laden Watching Himself on TV: Meta or Mundane?Posted on May 7, 2011
In one of five seized videos released by the U.S. government Saturday, Osama bin Laden watches himself on the news at his home in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The audio of each of the videos has been removed, and the public is left to speculate about the recordings’ meaning (or lack thereof). —KDG AP via YouTube: Advertisement Previous item: Obama Pays Respects at Ground Zero Next item: Michigan Law Grads Walk Out for Gay Rights New and Improved CommentsIf you have trouble leaving a comment, review this help page. Still having problems? Let us know. If you find yourself moderated, take a moment to review our comment policy. |
By Anarcissie, May 11, 2011 at 7:02 pm Link to this comment
If it’s theater, it’s the names of the characters that matter, not the names of the actors.
Report thisBy rbrooks, May 11, 2011 at 12:35 pm Link to this comment
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Oh, give me a break. What an ill-executed, insulting farce - how embarrassing that, as a country, we continue to take the CIA’s ridiculously obvious fake bin Laden and their crappy faked videos seriously.
Well, to be fair, maybe I overlooked something - was that “The Onion”?
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Osama-bin-Laden-s-Nose-Sh-by-Joe-Quinn-110508-788.html
Report thisBy Robert, May 11, 2011 at 7:29 am Link to this comment
Osama Bin Laden Videos Released By The Pentagon Are a Hoax, Man In TV Video Identified BBC: Neighbor Identifies Man In Pentagon Video As Not Osama Bin Laden
“In a BBC report, a Pakistani neighbor living near Osama Bin Laden compound identifies then man in video released by the Pentagon, which reportedly show Osama Bin Laden watching himself on TV, as Akhbar Khan and not Osama Bin Laden. The man interviewed tells the BBC about the man in the video “He is my neighbor, His name is Akhbar Khan, He owns the house……I know him very well”.”
Report thishttp://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/05/10/bbc-neighbor-identifies-man-pentagon-video-osama-bin-laden-video-22571/
By redipen, May 10, 2011 at 11:43 pm Link to this comment
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the transparency of the OBL Assassination PsyOp is overwhelming - a watershed moment -
indeed, a litmus test for so-called Progressive/Left/Lib. media, activists, pundits, authors etc.
they should be challenged for their position on this clearly fabricated spectacle
we can be certain that National Propaganda Radio will shill the Official Line… will Democracy
Now? Will so-called Left/Lib talkers like Rhodes, Maddaow, Hartman? Will the Nation, Mother
Jones, Coutnerpunch, Alternative Radio, Chomsky, et al?
when calling in to their shows or encountering them on their lecture/book-signing tours, ask
Report thisthem: what’s your take on the OBL Assassination PsyOP, doesn’t it look pretty phony?
By reynolds, May 10, 2011 at 10:24 am Link to this comment
“It’s time to stop this madness.”
it’s time to stop the mmmaadness.
Report thisBy Anarcissie, May 10, 2011 at 8:14 am Link to this comment
Seems to me the execution was theater, whether it’s really bin Laden or not. What difference does it make? An interesting puzzle might be, why didn’t Dub pull it off? According to the most currently prevalent legends, ‘they’ knew where he was several years ago.
Report thisBy CJ, May 10, 2011 at 8:02 am Link to this comment
First, congrats to TD on Webby. I voted, and about time an effort paid off. (My
people for office will never be elected—if officers we must endure.)
Second, Bin Laden was murdered, not “killed,” vigilante style. Governments get
legal passes, not moral ones. The line-up of killer officers at the top continues,
at least since Truman.
I reckoned the other day—and as I was writing yesterday when posting wasn’t
working here—that a Boomer nee 1950 has witnessed his or her joint at war
for half his or her life. For those really no good at math that would be 30 years.
Speaking only of the most overt offensives.
Let’s hear it for cowboys and cowgirls, now too including Obama and Clinton,
respectively.
CNN lost its mind over these tapes the other day, finally commentators
sounding like Joan Rivers reviewing a Hollywood starlet’s get-up. We heard,
among a host of other adjectives: “dingy,” “dreary,” and of course, “old,” “gray”
and “vain,” the last with reference to Osama watching himself on TV, apparently while
drinking Coca Cola, evil elixir of the West. (It used to be good—at the turn of
the 20th Century, not that even I was around to experience that. But from what
I’ve read…of sensible drug laws back then. Labor enjoyed some freedoms then
it’s not known since. The objective ever since has been one of extremely
irrational and rigid belief systems mostly founded in yet higher finance, and
thus more extreme, capitalism.)
Didn’t Bush love pb&j sandwiches? So do I, what of it? While all sodas are
detestable, which fact as it relates to Bin Laden is also irrelevant as it gets.
But it’s not about what’s relevant… That the White House thought to release
Report thisthese tapes and not photos of murder done tells us a lot about their actual
regard for we the people whom officers claim to hold in esteem.
By brian routh, May 10, 2011 at 6:34 am Link to this comment
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I don’t buy this for a minute…..in addition to all the other comments and
Report thisobservations…why is there no sound?...presumably because this old boy has a
different voice to OBL….I read on Aljazeera that someone in Pakistan claims that
this is his neighbour and the CIA paid him to sit there and pose.
By Maani, May 9, 2011 at 9:58 pm Link to this comment
minutemenmedia:
The so-called “fourth estate” changed from being a “watchdog” or “stopgap” for truth in government when it started treating any and every press release or statement from the White House/government as “truth” without even pretending to fact-check it. Part of this is the result of the 24/7 news cycle, and the media simply got lazy. But no matter what the reason, when the media treats government press releases and statements as “fact,” and delivers those “facts” unchecked to the public, that is called “propaganda.”
This is what allows the government (and media) to get away with marginalizing anyone who questions or disagrees with the “official story” as a “conspiracy theorist” - a phrase that has been successfully propagandized into a pejorative or epithet.
Unfortunately, the average American (sheeple) is either too ignorant or too apathetic to care. They eat their pablum, believing anything their government tells them. It is beyond sad; it is a travesty.
Peace.
Report thisBy maata haari, May 9, 2011 at 8:08 pm Link to this comment
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MinMenMedia; “...the question is, why aren’t TruthDig
and others covering the real story, the real issues?”
Damned right; was that Grecian Formula, or Just For
Report thisMen?
Let’s take a kayak to Quincy or Nayak, let’s get away
from all the madness. Thank God you’re on the case.
By Robert, May 9, 2011 at 6:52 pm Link to this comment
Bin Laden: The Ears Have It
May 8, 2011
“The photo on left is captured from video released today.The photo on right is from verified ABC interview of the real Osama Bin Laden before 911 and YouTube.
Ears are as unique as fingerprints, and they do not change with time. The ears do not match (and the noses are also different). The man in the video watching TV is most definitely not Osama Bin Laden.”
~~~~~~~~
Click on link to view photos & ears details…!!!
http://www.prisonplanet.com/bin-laden-the-ears-have-it.html
Report thisBy minutemenmedia, May 9, 2011 at 6:04 pm Link to this comment
I’m glad to see so many of you/us have seen through this obvious sham. So the question is, why aren’t TruthDig and others covering the real story, the real issues?
I read a comment from someone earlier that made a lot of sense; “If we look at the modern media the same way we look at a modern commercial or a modern ad campaign, with the same caution and obvious knowledge that something is being “sold,” then it starts to make sense.
So, now that we’ve killed Osama and stolen the “playbook,” who could possibly question the “intelligence” or intent behind a new wave of checkpoints at Amtrak stations (Senator Schumer just today suggested a “no-ride” list for Amtrak), and I’m sure the same is in store for bus stations, football games and concerts.
It’s time to stop this madness.
Report thisBy PatrickHenry, May 9, 2011 at 2:38 pm Link to this comment
I guess TPTB will keep working on this official story much like they did 9/11.
Report thisBy Gil, May 9, 2011 at 5:56 am Link to this comment
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Just like a lot of our megalomaniac politicians. These sick people have no interest
Report thisin making life better for anyone but themselves, and they are consumed by the
need for attention as proof that the actions promoted by their mental illness are of
any benefit to anyone but themselves.
By sharp[fang, May 8, 2011 at 8:56 pm Link to this comment
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I agree with all of the above; sheer nonsense and of a poor standard, even for the CIA (what do they do with all that money ?)
@ Niko agreed: This ludicous soap-opera has illustrated once again the craven, useless and embarassingly compliant Austalian media. They fell all over themselves to fill in the gaps and make excuses for the obvious weaknesses and holes in the story.
I am pushing this BBC interview around abc sites, waitimg to see any acknowlegement of their complete and utter failure as journalists.
Report thishttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13329078
By Maani, May 8, 2011 at 2:53 pm Link to this comment
diamond:
Thank you. That was my exact reaction as soon as I saw this: that’s OBL?! Right. And I’m Mata Hari. LOL.
BTW, OBL was a radical Sunni, of the Qubt school. And radical Sunnis are not permitted to dye their hair or beards. Period. OBL is as likely to have dyed his beard as he is to have swigged from a bottle of Jack. LOL.
I would add that, thus far, neither the gov’t nor the media has even attempted to explain why, if all the videos they allegedly found were recent, he looks ten years younger and healthier in some than he does in others. Couldn’t be that some of these videos are, in fact, ten years old, could it?
This whole story is such a crock.
Peace.
Report thisBy tony_opmoc, May 8, 2011 at 1:33 pm Link to this comment
I Don’t Know What You Americans are On - But According To My Wife The Latest Versions of The News Of The World Have The Headline…Complete With Photo..
“Bin Laden Shot On The Bog Whilst Having a Crap”
I Really Do Not Want To See That
Tony
Report thisBy lastdaywatchers, May 8, 2011 at 1:24 pm Link to this comment
Here is the TRUTH The May 15th Prophecy again
100%
accurate regarding the “offering up of
Osama Bin Laden” about the exact time he
would be killed
Read The Event Horizon & The Twins
Report thishttp://lastdaywatchers.blogspot.com/2011/05/event-
horizon-twins.html and you will see for yourself !
By lalalateeda, May 8, 2011 at 12:49 pm Link to this comment
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I thought he was left handed - why is he holding the remote with his right hand? I
Report thisnever use my left hand to control the remote because I am right handed. Strange.
By Anarcissie, May 8, 2011 at 8:46 am Link to this comment
According to the BBC, the story is being rewritten yet again: although bin Laden (or ‘bin Laden’) seems to have been a frail, ill old man living in a dump without trained and competent guards, a defensive perimeter, or an escape route, he was nevertheless also the hands-on operational commander of a powerful if invisible empire of terrorists. No doubt he also controlled hosts of djinn and flew about on a magic carpet to visit his field commanders. I wonder what tales we will hear next.
Report thisBy tony_opmoc, May 8, 2011 at 7:54 am Link to this comment
All this bollocks is doing my head in. Are people completely stupid or what?
I suspect there is another agenda going on here, because the Bullshit is so easily provable rubbish, they for whatever reason have decided to drown us all in a Tsunami of it.
Its a mass psy op to test how many intelligent humans left…
It would appear that around 90% of humans who take any notice of this rubbish have been turned into cloned sheep.
Bah Bah Black Sheep
PS The Videos look exactly the same as those released years ago
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=35200
Tony
Report thisBy Niko Leka, May 8, 2011 at 5:06 am Link to this comment
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Here in Australia, the sleazy mainstream media annoucnement first stated:
“normally we don’t show pictures of dead people but because this one is circulating on the internet, we will”- followed by a sort of ‘before’ and ‘after’ panel, and declaring he’d put up huge firefight…
then we hear he was unarmed,but his wife ‘lunged’ at the intruders- so they shot him?
Now we hear his body has been dumped in the sea, we see video of him at home- but no sound because we might all become jihadists
this whole thing- is insane, disrespectful of any idea of law or human rights. Its not only spin, its incredibly inept spin. The US regime is the most dangerous in the world: nobody can say ‘no’ because there is no negotiation, and in any case, nobody can assume that any of its actions will be rational.
I think the Seals should have gone looking for a door in their own country… sad to say. OH no- will they come for us now? For me?
Report thisBy diamond, May 7, 2011 at 8:47 pm Link to this comment
Jesus Christ people, wake up. That is NOT bin Laden. The ones of him with the black beard are simply laughable. Look at this man’s mouth, his nose, his eyes: he bears only the most superficial resemblance to bin Laden. These videos are fakes. I also saw somewhere that bin Laden is left handed but this man uses his right hand to use the remote. The CIA has been caught out numerous times releasing videos with fake bin Ladens in them and this is just another example of their handiwork. How people can still be taken in by this shit is beyond me.
Report thisBy Bill Herod, May 7, 2011 at 7:00 pm Link to this comment
Releasing this video may backfire as it portrays a rather frail, pathetic figure living in humble surroundings rather than the prince of terrorists living in a mansion we were told about last week.
Why can’t administration officials just tell the truth as they know it rather than embellish and fabricate - we have Republicans for that.
Report thisBy Gmonst, May 7, 2011 at 5:37 pm Link to this comment
Now that is one boring home movie!
Report thisBy Zeya, May 7, 2011 at 3:19 pm Link to this comment
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Not sure why it’s so earth-shattering or particularly newsworthy, especially the
Report thisclip of him watching himself. Now I might feel differently if he were shown
watching Jersey Shore, the Celebrity Apprentice, or Glen Beck!
By glider, May 7, 2011 at 3:01 pm Link to this comment
Hmmmm, surely this can be dated. Is this from Bin’s “million dollar mansion”?
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