Bin Laden home videos expected to be released

[Turborama]

Source: ABC

Saturday, May 07, 2011

WASHINGTON (KABC) -- The world will get its first glimpse into how Osama bin Laden lived inside the secret compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

Home videos and propaganda tapes found inside the hideout are expected to be released Saturday, U.S. officials said. This new material apparently includes candid footage of the slain al Qaeda leader strolling around the compound.

These tapes are among the wealth of information seized during the raid that killed bin Laden and four others. This collection of data suggests bin Laden played a strong role in planning attacks by al Qaeda and its affiliates in Yemen and Somalia, senior security officials said.

Officials say they have already learned a great deal from bin Laden's cache of computers and data, but they would not confirm reports that it yielded clues to the whereabouts of al Qaeda deputy Ayman al-Zawahri.

Read more: http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/world_news&id=8117705

[Lochloosa]

1. Sex threads are not allowed under DU rules

[Turborama]

2. LOL

& EW!

[SkyDaddy7]

3. An Osama Bin Laden Sex Tape?!?!

Now that would be AWESOME!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[OhioChick]

4. LOL.....

Thanks, I just got a visual.

:rofl:

:puke: :puke:

[Demeter]

5. What about boring trips to Mecca?

[JDPriestly]

6. Lots of sand dunes and bright sunlight and all to see a big tent. Ugh!!

[Turborama]

7. Apparently there are some boring ones of him watching himself on the news...

No mention if he had the infamous boxing glove and tub of Vaseline located near him, though...

Videos show bin Laden watching himself on TV

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and KIMBERLY DOZIER, Associated Press – 23 mins ago

WASHINGTON – Home movies taken from Osama bin Laden's hideout show the terrorist leader watching news coverage of himself on television.

The videos were seized by Navy SEALs after bin Laden was killed Monday. They were shown to reporters Saturday by intelligence officials.

The five movies offer the first public glimpse at bin Laden's life behind the walls of his compound in suburban Pakistan. The government-selected clips also provide an opportunity for the U.S. to paint bin Laden in an unflattering light to his supporters. They video include outtakes of his propaganda films and, taken together, portray him as someone obsessed with his own image and how he is portrayed to the world.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110507/ap_on_re_us/us_bin_laden_videos

[Viva_La_Revolution]

8. Update: they have been released (5 'clips')

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42941138/ns/world_news-death_of_bin_laden/

Video footage taken from Osama bin Laden's hideout in Abbotabad, Pakistan, show the terrorist leader watching news coverage of himself on television.

The videos were seized by Navy SEALs after bin Laden was killed Monday. They were shown to reporters Saturday by intelligence officials.

The five clips offer the first public glimpse at bin Laden's life behind the walls of his compound in suburban Pakistan. The government-selected clips also provide an opportunity for the U.S. to paint bin Laden in an unflattering light to his supporters. The videos include outtakes of his propaganda films and, taken together, portray him as someone obsessed with his own image and how he is portrayed to the world.

[OhioChick]

11. He looks like a little old man n/t

[dipsydoodle]

12. unflattering light to his supporters ?

According to our tv news here in the UK they were released because they knew al qaeda has already got copies too and they wanted to beat them to it in releasing them. Be interesting to find out what he's saying - just needs someone who can lip read Arabic.

[Misskittycat]

9. He was there for years. What? No pictures on the wall?n/t

[dipsydoodle]

13. ....playing solitaire 'till dawn

smoking cigarettes and watching Capt. Kangeroo.........:rofl:

[treestar]

10. It will be interesting to see if he said anything in them

Especially while watching coverage of himself on the news.

[Blandocyte]

14. Splashing in the inflatable pool, rollerskating, 8th grade dance...

[alp227]

15. I saw the video of him watching himself on TV

and noticed his grey beard. So that digitally enhanced photo based on the Spanish politician Gaspar Llamazares was a little accurate after all.

These videos should make the conspiracy theorists look well deserving of shame.