04-06-2009, 12:29 AM
Breaking news: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/world/...middleeast
CAIRO — Just as President Obama arrived in the Middle East, the Al Jazeera television news broadcast an audiotape on Wednesday that it said was Osama bin Laden condemning Mr. Obama for planting new seeds of “hatred and vengeance toward Americans.”
The message focused on President Obama’s decision to step up pressure on extremists in Pakistan. The speaker specifically blamed the president for the Pakistani military’s drive to retake an area in the Swat Valley that had recently come under the control of Taliban forces. He blamed Mr. Obama for the “one million Muslims” who have had to flee their homes because of the fighting. United Nations and Pakistani officials estimate that as many as three million people have been displaced by the conflict.
“Obama has followed the footsteps of his predecessor in increasing animosity towards Muslims and increasing enemy fighters and establishing long-term wars,” the recording said. “So the American people should get ready to reap the fruits of what the leaders of the White House have planted throughout the coming years and decades.”
The recording, if verified, is a signal that Mr. bin Laden, the fugitive leader of Al Qaeda, remains alive and in touch with current events, and that he retains effective channels of communication with the outside world. The message was released one day after Mr. bin Laden’s lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahri, issued his own audiotape condemning the president.
When will we (the people) understand? He's not making these "tapes". He's dead, or maybe living in Minneapolis in the Witness Protection Program, serving falafal wraps in the Mall of America.
Or, maybe he really is making the tapes, in the fully equipped studios of the NSA.
I'd really like to know what the Muslim world thinks about these recurring "Osama messages" They're the people in the know. They have friends and relatives all over the world who keep them informed. Do THEY believe Osama is still alive and kicking- still creating tapes at very convenient intervals to develop U.S. citizen support toward our government policy?
And how long will the American people continue to believe that a Military and a government that can locate me and my front door throught GPS technology (the 2010 census),a government that can implement microscopic Real ID chips and has already put them in "Smart" Passports and is perfectly capable of injecting them into our bodies along with a swine flu innoculation; a government that can hover robot attack planes armed with Hellfire missiles at 50,000 feet that are silent and unseen and able to kill one targetted individual (plus a little more collateral damage); a government that seems to find anyone they want through their cell phone; a government that has on-the-ground intel assets EVERYWHERE- how long will the American people believe that that Government,...well, shucks... just can't seem to find the person who it villifies as the most evil human since Hitler?
It just seems too "canned". Whenever we need an enemy to allow us to do something, we roll out Osama and get the rednecks behind the military.
This is crap. As Obama is making nice with the Muslims in Egypt, the PTB are pulling out yet another Osama "message" to remind us that we can't get complacent now, we can't let up on the war on terror. Osama Vs. Obama. Now we have a Saturday Night Smackdown poster if ever I saw one.
The beat goes on.
CAIRO — Just as President Obama arrived in the Middle East, the Al Jazeera television news broadcast an audiotape on Wednesday that it said was Osama bin Laden condemning Mr. Obama for planting new seeds of “hatred and vengeance toward Americans.”
The message focused on President Obama’s decision to step up pressure on extremists in Pakistan. The speaker specifically blamed the president for the Pakistani military’s drive to retake an area in the Swat Valley that had recently come under the control of Taliban forces. He blamed Mr. Obama for the “one million Muslims” who have had to flee their homes because of the fighting. United Nations and Pakistani officials estimate that as many as three million people have been displaced by the conflict.
“Obama has followed the footsteps of his predecessor in increasing animosity towards Muslims and increasing enemy fighters and establishing long-term wars,” the recording said. “So the American people should get ready to reap the fruits of what the leaders of the White House have planted throughout the coming years and decades.”
The recording, if verified, is a signal that Mr. bin Laden, the fugitive leader of Al Qaeda, remains alive and in touch with current events, and that he retains effective channels of communication with the outside world. The message was released one day after Mr. bin Laden’s lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahri, issued his own audiotape condemning the president.
When will we (the people) understand? He's not making these "tapes". He's dead, or maybe living in Minneapolis in the Witness Protection Program, serving falafal wraps in the Mall of America.
Or, maybe he really is making the tapes, in the fully equipped studios of the NSA.
I'd really like to know what the Muslim world thinks about these recurring "Osama messages" They're the people in the know. They have friends and relatives all over the world who keep them informed. Do THEY believe Osama is still alive and kicking- still creating tapes at very convenient intervals to develop U.S. citizen support toward our government policy?
And how long will the American people continue to believe that a Military and a government that can locate me and my front door throught GPS technology (the 2010 census),a government that can implement microscopic Real ID chips and has already put them in "Smart" Passports and is perfectly capable of injecting them into our bodies along with a swine flu innoculation; a government that can hover robot attack planes armed with Hellfire missiles at 50,000 feet that are silent and unseen and able to kill one targetted individual (plus a little more collateral damage); a government that seems to find anyone they want through their cell phone; a government that has on-the-ground intel assets EVERYWHERE- how long will the American people believe that that Government,...well, shucks... just can't seem to find the person who it villifies as the most evil human since Hitler?
It just seems too "canned". Whenever we need an enemy to allow us to do something, we roll out Osama and get the rednecks behind the military.
This is crap. As Obama is making nice with the Muslims in Egypt, the PTB are pulling out yet another Osama "message" to remind us that we can't get complacent now, we can't let up on the war on terror. Osama Vs. Obama. Now we have a Saturday Night Smackdown poster if ever I saw one.
The beat goes on.
"If you're looking for something that isn't there, you're wasting your time and the taxpayers' money."
-Michael Neuman, U.S. Government bureaucrat, on why NIST didn't address explosives in its report on the WTC collapses
-Michael Neuman, U.S. Government bureaucrat, on why NIST didn't address explosives in its report on the WTC collapses