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Top Bin Laden Expert: Confession Fake

Kevin Barrett sent the following email:

Top U.S. Bin Laden Expert: Confession Video “Bogus”
by Kevin Barrett, http://mujca.com
2/17/06

Was Osama Bin Laden responsible for 9/11?

The Bush Administration says yes, citing a grainy, badly-edited videotape that surfaced in December, 2001. In that tape, a fat guy who vaguely resembles Bin Laden chortles about the success of the 9/11 attacks. (In earlier interviews, Bin Laden had denied responsibility for 9/11, once even deploring the loss of civilian life in the attacks and calling them un-Islamic.)

Is the famous “confession video” genuine? Despite Bush’s insistence that the tape is authentic, America’s top academic Bin Laden expert has finally gone on the record, joining numerous other experts.

“It’s bogus,” says Professor Bruce Lawrence, head of Duke University’s Religious Studies program.

Lawrence, author of Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama Bin Laden, offered his historic debunking of the administration’s lie in an interview with Kevin Barrett (“Dynamic Duo,” gcnlive.com, 2/16/2007, first hour). The interview marked Lawrence’s first major public statement since he made headlines last year by suggesting that recent Osama tapes are hoaxes and that the real Osama Bin Laden may be dead.

Why has the Bush Administration been lying for more than five years by telling us that this preposterously bad hoax is a genuine “confession video”? Lawrence, citing informants in the US intelligence apparatus’s Bin Laden units, said that everyone knows the tape is fake, adding that the hoax has been kept alive because it is politically useful to those who wish to deflect attention from
“conspiracy theories” about 9/11.

If Professor Lawrence is right—and anyone with eyes can see that he is, simply by comparing the overweight impostor in the Fatty Bin Laden bogus confession video to other pictures of Osama Bin Laden—the Bush Administration, by repeatedly citing the tape as authentic, is clearly guilty of obstruction of justice at best, high treason and conspiracy to mass murder at worst. Since the FBI now tells us that Osama Bin Laden is “not wanted for 9/11” because there is “no hard evidence” connecting him to the 9/11 attacks, and since US intelligence personnel all know the “confession tape” is a Bush Administration hoax, it should not be difficult to nail the perpetrators of this outrageous cover-up of the crime of the century.

It is time for Congress or an appropriate judicial authority to mount an investigation of the Fatty Bin Laden bogus confession video.

Where did this tape come from? Who was responsible for the
administration’s claim that it is authentic, despite widespread knowledge in relevant intelligence agencies that it is bogus? If Bruce Lawrence is correct in asserting that US intelligence personnel know the tape is fake, we need to put them, along with Bush and Cheney, under oath and find out why our government has been lying so outrageously for more than five years in order to obstruct justice by shielding the real perpetrators of 9/11.

Please email your congressional representatives with the subject header “investigate bogus Bin Laden ‘confession video’ NOW!” and include a copy of this article in the body of the message.

You can listen to the interview if you buy a subscription to GCN Radio, or the interview might be linked on the sample page in a couple of months.

It is also worth noting that Professor Lawrence said the same thing to Professor Steven Jones early last summer.

Are the Dynamic Duo archives

Are the Dynamic Duo archives available to GCN paying members only? I'd love to hear this audio,

Believing in "The Boogeyman"

Definition of a "conspiracy theory":

Nineteen amateur pilots from Saudi Arabia, who could barely fly single-engine Cessnas, commandeer four commercial jumbo-jets with box-cutters and fly them into US targets with pin-point accuracy while the entire US military stands-down for over an hour -- lead by a cave-dwelling Muslim on kidney dialysis.

Osama bin Laden is not now, nor has he ever been, considered a suspect in the attacks on 9/11 by the FBI. The "Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda, terrorist" crap is insulting to our collective intelligence. He's probably been dead for a few years now.

Ever hear of the word disinformationalist? That's what the damn news media is doing every time they continue to spread this garbage: spreading disinformation.

dis·in·for·ma·tion (dĭs-ĭn'fər-mā'shən)
n.
1. Deliberately misleading information announced publicly or leaked by a government or especially by an intelligence agency in order to influence public opinion or the government in another nation: "He would be the unconscious channel for a piece of disinformation aimed at another country's intelligence service" (Ken Follett).
2. Dissemination of such misleading information.

 

Just found this

Is bin Laden a terrorist mastermind --
or a fall guy?

http://www.salon.com/news/1998/08/27news.html

stunning...

Where's Loren today? She's got that right even well before 911...

wow, thank you for that link

wow, thank you for that link man. yeah, i would love to hear from that Loren woman today.

Found by accident

but this thread I made deliberately ;-)

http://z10.invisionfree.com/Loose_Change_Forum/index.php?showtopic=4246

I can't imagine how anyone can go through it and don't doubt the official version afterwards...

Good work Kevin

If someone can upload this would love to hear this!

Also remember there is no paper trail...

This reminds me of this excellent article by the Muckraker in which an FOIA was filed for all documents relating to discovery, chain of custody, and authentication of this Bin Laden tape. Basically the response was no records exist:

http://www.muckrakerreport.com/id301.html

This is another nail in the coffin, keep it up!

Next up: Water found to be wet!

And the exciting conclusion of our three part series, "The Sun is hot."

DIGG!

I successfully submitted this story to digg. Go on Digg, do a search about Bin Laden, and you should find it.

Read the last genius on this Earth: http://www.notbored.org/debord.html

Link

It helps if you provide a link. Only 7 diggs so far...

http://digg.com/political_opinion/Top_U_S_Bin_Laden_Expert_9_11_Confessi...

FBI had already acknowledged that they don't have evidence that bin Laden was involved. Now the only piece of evidence of his involvement has now been thoroughly discredited.

What shall we do with this information? An email campaign to the few remaining honest journalists and media persons? What about a legal process?

See:

See:

http://911lies.org/fake_bin_laden.html

And this photograph:

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a321/bogumilo/5420-20fake_osama.jpg

Who shows, on the left, the Ben laden video of the consents presented by the American government in December 2001, on the right, Bin Laden truth.

Bin Laden appearing in the video presented by the American government has the nose shorter in the direction height and broader than Bin Laden truth. It cannot be Bin Laden truth, impossible.

Rick Siegel's got a big problem.

Have to say, many of us have

Have to say, many of us have our own reasons not to like "Ricky". What are yours--besides the profit angle?

Impeachment. Accountability. A better world.

The 2004 October Surprise

All Fake

I'm guessing that if they are not all fake then they are staged and these guys are in our pocket...... for all I know the video with all the hijackers allegidly meeting and being on video together was filmed after 9/11....

for all we know these guys are living happy lives in the back country of Turkey with a matress full of cash
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Ignorance is NOT Bliss

Again I ask...





All of this is phony?
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nobody said that. but do you

nobody said that. but do you think the Bin Laden tape ISNT phony?

He's worn rings and watches in other videos, if you don't pause

it on the notorious "fatty" shot there are instances where it looks similar to his other photos.

Frankly I don't care either way if its fake or not, and it isn't necessary to even bring up, in my opinion.

What I will bring up is the fact that nothing ever conclusively blaming him has ever been produced, documented, etc.... and the FBI does not list him as wanted for 9/11.

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The big thing...

About the Bin Laden confession video is that it was never authenticated.

They do it for everything else...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10924015/
http://wjz.com/topstories/local_story_019203228.html
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-01-19-bin-laden-audio_x.htm
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1522491
http://www.thewmurchannel.com/news/6242237/detail.html?rss=man&psp=natio...

Colin Powell promised a "White Paper" that would show the evidence linking Bin Laden to 9/11. That never came. Could the fact that this video wasn't authenticated be the reason why that lone reporter asked the President about it's authenticity?

Ed Haas initially reported on that.


"So where is the oil going to come from?... The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies."

Richard Cheney - Chief Executive Of Halliburton

"The big thing... About the

"The big thing...
About the Bin Laden confession video is that it was never authenticated."

Bingo Jon, THAT is quite a conspiracy theory.

so you do think its him

so you do think its him then? i agree that the ring thing is really not a big deal, i dont buy that Bin Laden is devout anyway:) and i understand not wanting to bring it up(though i personally do because it actually does work for some people believe it or not), but you seriously think this thing is real? after the german voice expert, this guy and the few other brave people that have come forward to cast serious doubts on it? im sorry, i just dont think its him. yes, he looks similar, that was the point, but in my humble opinion(and the opinions of people much smarter than myself) that just isnt Bin Laden. after his denial in the Pakistani press it was VITAL for "Bin Laden" to be on tape taking responsibility. thats what this tape is i believe. (ask our government how they got this tape in the first place. now THATS a conspiracy theory)

doesn't matter what i think...

I'm not an expert on bin laden. I could speculate, but what good does that do?

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speculation?

oh, its only caused maybe thousands, possibly millions of people to question 9/11. nice try, but hard facts sway many people, speculation sways the rest.

agreed, but I'm past that.

but whatever works for you, bro. Keep reaching out.

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Speculation that is later

Speculation that is later proven false turns people away from the more solid evidence of complicity.
I'm a Pepper. Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper too?

By that argument we should

By that argument we should never wonder about anything we can't prove--ever.

That puts Galileo in a bit of a bind, and Copernicus. Let's see, Aristotle, oh and that flaming ponce Da Vinci--no credability whatsoever. Mind, these people are considered brilliant and were mostly right, BUT NOT ABOUT EVERYTHING.

My point is that you have to speculate to make any headway in science--or life--always with the risk you might be wrong. But what separates science from idle speculation is a) following a method and b) allowing for the POSSIBILITY you may be wrong.

Remember, at one point what we consider the solid evidence was considered speculation--see Galileo, Copernicus, etc.

Impeachment. Accountability. A better world.

Ähem, I do. n/t

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"America’s top academic

"America’s top academic Bin Laden expert has finally gone on the record, joining numerous other experts."

does anybody know how true this statement is? is he really that important in the study of "Bin Laden" in this country? if so, this is bigger than i thought. i would also like to hear his thoughts on other 9/11 issues if thats the case.

You mean this is bogus?

In a November 2001 tape, bin Laden said, “We calculated in advance the number of casualties … who would be killed …. I was the most optimistic of them all. … Due to my experience in this field, I was thinking that the fire from the gas in the plane would melt the iron structure of the building and collapse the area where the plane hit and all the floors above it only.” "they" think we are stupid. We must be the change we wish to see in the world. M Gandhi