Are the Osama Tapes Fakes?

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Kristina Borjesson: Are the Osama Tapes Fakes? -- A BuzzFlash Guest Contribution

What these journalists are doing is worse than outright lying to the public. They are literally helping dangerous people with deadly hidden agendas create a virtual reality by unquestioningly conveying their messages.

'One, all the unauthenticated audiotapes and fuzzy videos look and sound suspicious. Two, there hasn't been any clear, up-close, "look at me, I'm alive" videos of Bin Laden for years. The journalism community would do well to wonder why -- and then move forward aggressively from there. The American public needs to know what's going on here.'

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Kristina Borjesson: Morphing Osama
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Tue, 01/08/2008 - 3:17pm. Guest Contribution
A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION
by Kristina Borjesson


Late in December 2007, The Associated Press reporter Salah Nasrawi wrote a story about a Bin Laden audiotape that had just been released. Headlined "Bin Laden Threatens Israel, Warns Iraqis," Nasrawi's piece details Osama's dire threats to expand al Qaeda's jihad in Israel and to "liberate Palestine, the whole of Palestine from the (Jordan) river to the sea," threatening "blood for blood, destruction for destruction."
Then, 11 paragraphs down, Nasrawi writes: "The authenticity of the tape could not be independently confirmed. But the voice resembled that of bin Laden. The tape was posted on an Islamic militant Web site where al-Qaida's media arm, Al-Sahab, issues the group's messages."

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Reporting on unauthenticated bin Laden tapes as if they were real is, shamefully, getting to be an old practice. In November 2002, a "bin Laden" audiotape surfaced and a senior State Department official explained to CNN that the voice on the tape was indeed Bin Laden's, but that "we don't know yet whether anybody put it together, spliced or computer-generated it."

Just how could "anybody" computer-generate bin Laden's voice and create an entire bogus statement?

On February 1, 1999, William Arkin, writing for washingtonpost.com, described a voice-morphing technology that government scientists at Los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico had developed.

A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION

Kristina Borjesson is an investigative reporter and the author of FEET TO THE FIRE, The Media After 9/11: Top Journalists Speak Out

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[bullimiami]

1. of course they are. the cia has been making them all along.

i have believed that almost from the beginning.

[in_cog_ni_to]

2. Ditto that. The CIA Production Company has been very busy. They're all fake. n/t

[Brother_1969]

5. Notice how it's always the CIA that certifies them

as actual, bonafide OBM tapes. Coincidence? Only a fool would think so.

[leftofthedial]

3. phony as the mitt romney hunting pictures

[davidwparker]

4. According to Bhuto, bin Laden was murdered (Nov 2 interview). Then, she

was assassinated. The inteview was done by David frost.

[kimmerspixelated]

6. I think OBL has been gone for awhile.

[davidwparker]

8. Right. Me too. 2 November was when Bhutto gave the interview to Frost. OBL

has too many "looks" if you study at what the CIA has been pimping to the public.

[old guy]

7. Is the Pope catholic?

Does a bear s... in the woods? Is every word out of *s mouth a lie? I think you all know the answers. Just saying.

[Altean Wanderer]

9. Since Bin Laden is most likey dead, then yes!

Watch the David Frost interview with Ben. Bhutto and consider the reports of his death in the Pakistani and Indian press. He's most likely dead. It sickens me to think this Al-CIA-duh stuff isn't "duh" to most of our fellow citizens.