OBL mocks Bush - sure this isn't the work of the CIA-they want * out

[Sperk]

"It never occurred to us that the commander-in-chief of the American armed forces would leave 50,000 of his citizens in the two towers to face these horrors alone," he said, referring to the number of people who worked at the World Trade Center.

"It appeared to him (Mr. Bush) that a little girl's talk about her goat and its butting was more important than the planes and their butting of the skyscrapers. That gave us three times the required time to carry out the operations, thank God," he said.

In planning the attacks, bin Laden said he told Mohammed Atta, one of the hijackers, that the strikes had to be carried out "within 20 minutes before Bush and his administration noticed."

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how can anyone think this helps Bush?
This whole thing sticks to high heaven if you ask me.

[Kierkegaard]

1. Give the media a bit of time.

They'll spin it for Bugsy. Don't they always?

[zoeb]

2. Kerry camp needs to pound on this...n/t

[The Doctor.]

3. I haven't actually seen the translation, but

this is a joke - right?

[Sperk]

4. no joke, sorry missed the link....here it is

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/10/29/terror/main652373.shtml

[txindy]

5. Absolutely not. Here you go:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BIN_LADEN_TAPE_EXCERPTS?SITE=SCCOL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

In case the link isn't working, here's a taste:

"Even as you enter the fourth year after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush is still misleading and deluding you and hiding the real reason from you. Consequently, there are still reasons to repeat what happened. I will tell you about the reasons behind these attacks and will tell you the truth about the moments during which the decision was made, for you to contemplate.......
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He passed on tyranny and oppression to his son, and they called it the PATRIOT act, under the pretext of fighting terror. Bush the father did well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the expertise in fraud from the leaders of the (Mideast) region to Florida to use it in critical moments."

I watched the tape when it was first broadcast. It is MIND-BOGGLING!!

[The Doctor.]

8. Wow - thanks guys

[Philosophy]

7. Says how stupid "they hate us for our freedoms" is too

The next Rovian spin will obviously be that OBL is in league with Kerry because he is actually using Democratic talking points.

[txindy]

6. The CIA occurred to me, too

I don't think they created the tape. I believe it is genuine. I do think they held onto it and 'authenticated' it at precisely the right moment in this election, though. Obviously, I don't really know that is fact, but it sure has that feel to it.

Does this tape help B*sh? Not in this lifetime. Words cannot describe how devastating this tape is to Junior.

[leftofthedial]

9. this reads almost like a remake of F9/11

in its recounting of the basic facts of 9-11

the truth has no bias