Bin Laden Home Video

From 9/11 Encyclopedia:

Osama Bin Laden's famous home video, which was "found" in December 2001, was used for an "evidence" on the September 11th attack and was originally translated with the help of "independent" translators. This seems to be untrue. They all had government or military connections (See Monterey Language Institute) and got even criticised for their "superficial" job.

This included Christopher Ross, a US Department of State consultant, who admitted, that the English translation was "not accurate confirming that he replayed the tape fifty times for translation". Middle-East Wire pointed out, that the congratulating expressions that came in the tape, indicate Bin Ladin was getting a congratulating by the marriage of his child by Aiman Al-Zawaheri 's child that completed since four years. Many other sources speculated about a stand-in for Bin Laden. 

Sources: villagevoice.com/issues/0152/binfakin.php   11september.20m.com/latest_news/fake_video.htm 
fbi.gov/mostwant/topten/fugitives/laden.htm    rense.com/general18/face.htm

While the Tape seemed to be not fabricated, the translation was obviously wrong. Pretty odd the reaction of Donald Rumsfeld, who confirmed that the tape was found only "a few weeks ago", which was exactly at the time, when neither the Northern Alliance nor the US Troops had been arrived yet in Kandahar (where it was officially found) or in Jahlalabad (where it was officially produced):

"...It took some time, and we believe it was done carefully, but we do not stand behind it. It is not our tape. It is not our translation. We did the best we could..." "..Q: What do you mean, you do not stand behind the tape? Rumsfeld: It is not for me -- I don't speak Arabic..." defenselink.mil/news/Dec2001/t12132001_t1213sd.html "

Q:..was it found by U.S. military, the tape? Rumsfeld: I've said I don't care to get into the subject anymore..." Noted Harvard law Professor Alan Dershowitz said "the vile video of Osama bin laden does not necessarily prove the master terrorist's guilt". The UK Observer asked: Why had bin Laden broken his tight security to talk? Why had he not used one of his normally favoured media outlets? Was the tape genuine? Was this indeed bin Laden at all? Source: guardian.co.uk/september11/story/0,11209,619188,00.html

From an early analysis at Ground Zero Forum (->): Another speculation circulated, that parts of the conversation on this tape had been based on a conversation from June 2001 on the attack on the USS Cole and just had been resampled, rearranged and reedited. Middle East Magazine Markazdawa pointed out, that the use of "We asked" "We expected" and "We calculated" are in fact not the words used as he actually says "They asked" "They said" "They calculated"..." Source: markazdawa.org/English/200112/15-a-inin.htm#2

It was wrong, that Mohammad Atta's last name was mentioned in the video, as many tabloid papers tried to fabricate. Atta's last name wasn't mentioned in the originally transcript, which was released worldwide. In fact, it looked that Bin Laden, as usually, was talking about his favourite prophet, named "Mohammed" (correctly spelled with an "e" in the transcript). Another point: If Bin Laden said, "when you hear a breaking news announcement on the radio, kneel immediately, and that means they have hit the World Trade Center", then it wouldn't fit, once again, with his original description of that day: First he said: "...We had finished our work that day and had the radio on. It was 5:30 p.m. our time..." This would have been before 8AM in New York Time, and 45 minutes before the first crash into the WTC. Does that mean that they waited or just listened to the radio? Keep in mind, that a live broadcast on the radio was impossible. No radio station or TV was able to show the first crash live, but later they showed the 2nd crash live. 

Another question is unanswered: which radio station did they listen at all in Afghanistan? Now Bin Laden says: "..I was sitting with Dr. Ahmad Abu-al. Immediately, we heard the news that a plane had hit the World Trade Center..." So this doesn't make sense at that time. But then he said: "..We turned the radio station to the news from Washington. The news continued and no mention of the attack until the end. At the end of the newscast, they reported that a plane just hit the World Trade Center..." It was well known, that the Taliban has banned every international TV and radio stations. Which radio station did Bin Laden listen to? Finally on December 20th 2002, German TV Magazine MONITOR (Host: Klaus Bednarz/ARD TV) and two notarised arab speaking specialists incl. Abdel El M. Husseini and orient expert Gernot Ritter came to the conclusion, that the following parts have been manipulated:

1) "..We calculated in advance the number of casualties who would be killed.." The ORIGINAL was however: "..We calculated the number of casualties.." That means the words "in advance" didn't appear in the original and have been added in the text translation transcript

2) "..We had notification since the previous Thursday that the event would take place that day.." The ORIGINAL was however: "..We had notification since Thursday.." "previous" didn't appear on the original tape.

3) "..we asked each of them to go to America.." The ORIGINAL was however: "..they have been forced..(rest was inaudible!!) The TV Magazin came to the conclusion, that with the "new correct translation" the tape is no evidence anymore. Conclusion: The Tape is useless and was manipulated in the translation. The TV Magazine didn't analyse, if the conversation was overdubbed or sampled. They didn't investigate the original tape, which includes a digital timestamp. The official production date was on November 9th 2001. A request by hacker magazine http://2600.com to analyse this timestamp, was denied by the Pentagon. MONITOR received a copy of the original tape by the US-Government 

Sources: http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,174025,00.html 
http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb10/frieden/regionen/Afghanistan/laden-video.html 
http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=16389&group=webcast

Only 6 hours after an article on MONITOR was released, the Pentagon decided to release "new" parts of the Bin laden video, which then included some disturbing ties to Saudi Arabia. New Bin Laden Videos appeared during 2002, with even less credibility.

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