US baffled by Bin Laden's "New Black Beard"
"We don't know if it's dyed and trimmed, or real, but that's one of the things we are looking at"
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Yet another reason to dismiss "Osama's new tape" as a nothing but a lie.
US intelligence officials studying Osama bin Laden's videotape released last week said today they were baffled by his new black beard."We don't know if it's dyed and trimmed, or real, but that's one of the things we are looking at," Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell told a Senate committee hearing. "The last time he appeared it was very different."
The videotape released by his al-Qaeda network on Saturday was bin Laden's first in nearly three years. In it, his beard was black and neatly cropped, unlike the untrimmed grey of previous appearances.
Analysts say the tape was made no earlier than last month.
Mr McConnell reiterated an administration assessment that bin Laden's video - calling the United States vulnerable and encouraging Americans to embrace Islam - did not appear to be a signal for a new attack.
But he said al-Qaeda's hostile intent was clear.
The beard has also mystified private analysts, who said bin Laden may be trying to enhance his image as a leader or who simply called it bizarre. MJ Gohel of the Asia-Pacific Foundation said bin Laden looked "vain and ridiculous".
"It does not fit with the image he has so carefully nurtured, the masquerade of his being a holy warrior devoid of normal human traits," he said.
What a joke.
They can't even get their costumes right.
..bin laden is hiding out at the pentagon; launch a pre-emptive WMD strike to bring democracy to the world!
Steven Morris
Saturday December 15, 2001
US urged to detail origin of tape
The Guardian
There was growing doubt in the Muslim world about the authenticity of the film while special effects experts said computer technology made it possible to fake such a video...
Sean Broughton, director of the London-based production company Smoke and Mirrors and one of Britain's leading experts on visual effects, said it would be relatively easy for a skilled professional to fake a video of Bin Laden.
The first step would be to transfer images shot on videotape on to film tape. Distortion or "noise" and graininess would be removed. A "morphing package" would then be used to manipulate the image on a computer screen.
Using such a package it is possible to alter the subject's mouth and expressions to fit in with whatever soundtrack is desired. The final step is to put the "noise" and graininess back on and transfer the doctored images on to videotape.
In a recent advert that Smoke and Mirrors made for a US insurance company, the technique was used to place Bill Clinton's head on an actor's body for comic effect.
Mr Broughton said that while it would be relatively easy to fake a Bin Laden video, to fool the top experts was much more difficult. "There are perhaps 20 people in America who would be good enough to fool everybody. To find someone that good and make sure they kept quiet would probably be pretty difficult."
Bob Crabtree, editor of the magazine Computer Video, said it was impossible to judge whether the video was a fake without more details of its source. "The US seems simply to have asked the world to trust them that it is genuine."
Mr Bush said it was "preposterous for anybody to think this tape was doctored".
Osama’s tape: Latest of U.S. fabrications
In an audiotape attributed to Al Qaeda chief leader, Saudi dissident Osama Bin Laden said that Zacarias Moussaoui - the only person convicted in the U.S. for the Sept. 11 attacks, wasn’t involved in the operation. "He had no connection at all with Sept. 11," the speaker, claiming
"He had no connection at all with Sept. 11," the speaker, claiming to be Bin Laden, said in the tape posted on an Internet site earlier.
"I am the one in charge of the 19 brothers and I never assigned brother Zacarias to be with them in that mission," the speaker said, referring to the hijackers.
"Since Zacarias Moussaoui was still learning how to fly, he wasn't No. 20 in the group, as your government has claimed," Bin Laden said. "It knows this very well."
But Scholars for 9/11 Truth, a non-partisan association of faculty, students, and scholars in history, science, military affairs, psychology, and philosophy, dedicated to exposing falsehoods and to revealing truths behind 9/11, concluded that Bin Laden’s tape was “one more installment in a succession of evidence fabricated by the U.S. government to deceive the American people”.
"This tape is only the latest in a series of fabrications intended to mislead the American people," said James H. Fetzer, the society's founder. "The closer we get to revealing the truth about 9/11, the more furiously the government fights to conceal it," according to PRWEB.
Members of Scholars with the help of other experts have evidence of fakery, he further stated
In contrast to Osama’s latest tape, in which he claims responsibility for orchestrating 9/11 attacks, another tape also attributed to Al Qaeda leader and released on December 27, 2001, the authenticity of which is not in doubt, showed Osama denying having links to 9/11.
"Moreover," Fetzer added, "some of the 19 hijackers he 'personally assigned' have turned up alive and well."
This is not the first time a tape is released in which Bin Laden appears to take responsibility for the attacks.
"The Osama on the video tape that appeared on December 13, 2001, confessed to planning the 9/11 attacks. But he is far darker and much heavier than the real Osama Bin Laden. People can see the difference by looking up 'The Fake Bin Laden Video Tape'," David Ray Griffin, a prominent member of Scholars, points out.
Griffin's view is supported by work-in-progress by members of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, which appears on its web site under the title, "9/11: Have we been lied to?"
It also presented an evidence of fakery in some of previously released videos based upon various physical properties of the figures that appears to be Bin Laden, noting that there are differences in the ears, cheeks, eyebrows, length of the nose and shape of the nostrils.
"The use of computer analysis can 'fine tune' these questions of facial characteristics," Fetzer said, "but the gross differences already show they are not the same."
"Another problem with the video of December 13, 2001," according to Griffin, "was that its stocky Bin Laden praised two of the alleged hijackers, Wail M. Al-Shehri and Salem al-Hazmi, by name, and yet both the London Telegraph and the Saudi embassy reported several days after 9/11 that al-Hazmi was still alive and working in Saudi Arabia. Given the fact that the earlier video in which Osama confessed was clearly a fake, we should be suspicious of this latest apparent confession."
A professor at Duke, Bruce Lawrence, who has published Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama Bin Laden, expressed deep doubts about the credibility of the tape released January 17, 2006.
In a report that appeared two days after the release of the tape, Lawrence said "There's nothing in this from the Qur’an,"
"He's, by his own standards, a faithful Muslim who quotes scripture in defense of his actions. There's no quotation from the Qur’an in the excerpts we got, no reference to specific events, no reference to past atrocities."
Moreover, Fetzer, informed that Reuters news agency has reported confirmation that the voice on the tape is indeed that of Osama Bin Laden, Fetzer stated that "The fact that the voice is his does not prove that the tape is authentic. We have had phony tapes before using voices that were authentic. Mark Bingham, a passenger on Flight 93, is supposed to have called his mother and said, 'Hi, Mom, this is Mark Bingham!' His mother confirmed it was his voice, but does anyone seriously believe that Mark Bingham would have used his last name in identifying himself to his mother?"
"Back in 1999,” he said, “William Arkin published an article entitled, 'When Seeing and Hearing isn't Believing' describing the new technology of 'voice morphing' (or 'voice synthesizing'), Arkin explained that, if audio technicians have a recording of your voice, then they can create a tape in which your voice, your authentic voice says anything they wish."
The Scholars stated in an a press release on April 22, 2006, that a tape played during the trail of Zacarias Moussaoui, a 37-year-old Frenchman who was sentenced to life in prison earlier this month after a jury ruled that he was responsible for at least one death on Sept. 11, included “discussion among the passengers about using a drink cart to break down the cabin door alleged to have been picked up on a cockpit voice recorder, which does not record conversations in the passenger cabin”.
"This is not the first and certainly will not be the last time that the American government plays the American people for suckers," Fetzer said.
"We have just acquired new evidence that the Top of FormPentagon video tapes were processed and manipulated in an apparent effort to distort or conceal what happened there on 9/11," Fetzer stated. "Apparently, whenever the government feels the need to bolster the official myth about 9/11, it simply fabricates a new tape! Anybody who wants to keep score should visit our web site."
Source: AlJazeera
They even had him fooled for awhile!
Of course he denied it, twice..
"I was not involved in the September 11 attacks in the United States nor did I have knowledge of the attacks. There exists a government within a government within the United States. The United States should try to trace the perpetrators of these attacks within itself; to the people who want to make the present century a century of conflict between Islam and Christianity. That secret government must be asked as to who carried out the attacks. ... The American system is totally in control of the Jews, whose first priority is Israel, not the United States."
http://www.viewzone.com/osama.html
October 16, 2001-- "An interview with Osama bin Laden was published in a Karachi-based Pakistani daily newspaper, Ummat, on September 28, 2001. In this interview, bin Laden says of the September 11 attacks in the US:
"I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States. As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had no knowledge of these attacks, nor do I consider the killing of innocent women, children and other humans as an appreciable act. Islam strictly forbids causing harm to innocent women, children and other people. Such a practice is forbidden even in the course of a battle."
http://www.public-action.com/911/oblintrv.html
Original Fake Confession
New Fake Confession, obvious computer edit! (obviously) Look at his lips, and listen to the voice!
MAD-eLiNE albright "WE think it's worth 500,000 dead Iraqis"
The fact that this ben Adladin tape got so much coverage shows to what extent US Zionist-controlled mainstream media is IN CONTROL of American minds. The rubbish Americans are being fed through this media is not just unbelievable..., it is very sad and pathetic. Most Americans have become active participants in the harming of their very own country... along with the ziocons and the Chertoffs... who control their minds. The country that is supposed to be the most developed country in the world, is the country that has the least knowledgeable people in the world and they keep finding out that they were lied to when it's too late. Unbelievable.