Osama’s Missing Footage
The bin Laden tape that aired on Al Jazeera isn’t really going to affect the election much, in my opinion. Osama explicitly says it doesn’t matter who we elect. He’s going to hate us regardless.
It turns out that the tape has been massively edited. The full tape, which is 3 times as long as the edited footage shown on Al Jazeera, has a much more dolorous tone.
Osama bin Laden’s newest tape may have thrust him to the forefront of the presidential election, but what was not seen was the cave-dwelling terror lord talking about the setbacks al Qaeda has faced in recent months.
Officials said that in the 18-minute long tape — of which only six minutes were aired on the al-Jazeera Arab television network in the Middle East on Friday — bin Laden bemoans the recent democratic elections in Afghanistan and the lack of violence involved with it.
On the tape, bin Laden also says his terror organization has been hurt by the U.S. military’s unrelenting manhunt for him and his cohorts on the Afghan-Pakistani border.
New York Post: Full Tape an Osama Woe Show
Funny how Al Jazeera edited the exact parts of the tape that would have had a negative effect on the morale of terrorists and a positive effect on the way Americans view the job Bush did in Afghanistan.
(hat tip to LFG)
