Re: Did you write that yourself, or are you quoting from Bin Laden's video tape?
Well.... Sorry for playing the bird of ill omen but I'm afraid that so-called "smoking-gun videotape" is just a dubbed movie.... I mean the original soundtrack's been doctored. You Yanks are not familiar with dubbed movies, are you? Anyway, over here in Europe, dubbed US movies/TV-series make up most of our daily "flick diet". Coach potatoes across Europe watch Dynasty, Colombo, Star Trek, etc. dubbed in French, German, Italian, whatever... and it works! I mean Peter Falk's (aka Inspecteur Colombo) French is excellent <g>. After all, Bin Laden's lingo is Arabic, not some obscure Afghan patois --hence, it shouldn't be that difficult to find a proper Arabic speaker to dub him.
Now, the snag is, how long will the Pentagon trick hold out? It could backfire on them if other, uncensored copies of the Bin Laden video are circulating --I guess the US struck a deal with Al-Jazeera to impose a blackout on Bin Laden's video-trail.... (I guess that's why the video wasn't released by the Justice Department nor by the State Dept.)
Gus.
BTW, other non-Arab pundits are also skeptical about the genuineness of the Bin Laden video, like that French outfit:
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