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New Fake(?) Bin Laden Tapes
There is a new ‘announcement’ of a Bin Laden tape to declare war on Musharraf. After the recent dubious ‘Bin Laden tape’, with only still pictures while the voice over talked about recent events, we should judge this ‘new evidence’ carefully:
CAIRO, Egypt – Osama bin Laden will release a new message soon declaring war on Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, al-Qaida announced Thursday.
The announcement of the upcoming message came as al-Qaida released a new video in which bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, boasted that the United States was being defeated in Afghanistan, Iraq and other fronts.
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A banner posted on an Islamic militant Web site on Thursday advertised that another message would be released, though it did not say whether bin Laden would appear in video or speak in an audiotape.
"Soon, God willing: ‘Come to Jihad (holy war)’, from sheik Osama bin Laden, God protect him" the banner read.
"Urgent, al-Qaida declares war on the tyrant Pervez Musharraf and his apostate army, in the words of Osama bin Laden," it read.
Such advertisements usually precede the release of the video by one to three days, according to IntelCenter, a U.S. counterterrorism group that monitors militant messages.
Being an technical Internet guy since 1992, I am again wondering how any website, with a fixed IP address and thereby known physical location, can post anything like this without the international alphabet soup of secret services knowing the authors. I find this very unlikely. IntelCenter, as well as its sister company SITE which also ‘releases’ alleged Bin Laden tapes, are ‘private’ institutions headed by former U.S. government employees and financed through U.S. government contracts.
To anyone in this world who wants to post ‘terrorist’ footage to an international public, the most anonymous way is to send a CD or video tape to the outlets of legitimate news agencies. Anything put up on the web is by definition traceable. An envelope dropped into at a public letter box is not. The first Bin Laden tapes in 2002, likely real ones, were delivered anonymous to Al Jazeerah. So why are these ‘new tapes’ released through U.S. government contractors?
The sole fact that such ‘tapes’ and ‘announcements’ are now provided through IntelCenter and SITE is reason to doubt their origin. The content of these tapes, with ‘Bin Laden’ endorsing left wing writers he likely never read and declaring war on U.S. sponsored dictators, is playing right into Bush’s hand. Another reason that lets me disregard them as rubbish.
The recent announcements and tapes have thereby only one value. They allow a glimpse into the propaganda strategy of the imperial regime.
You are far too mild, b.
Everything we are told is a lie. EVERYTHING. If it wasn’t a lie, it wouldn’t need to be told to us, it would be obvious and we would know it. If we were winning the fake “war on terror,” the stories wouldn’t say “We Are Winning,” they would say, “Drugs Found in Venezuelan Tanker,” or “Threat of Global Warming Forces Innovative New Pre-emtive Climate-Saving Intervention Strategy,” or some such other drivel. Anyone can make up the sad rationalizations the press bombards us with 24/7; it is evil child’s play, a simple parlor game.
Ten years ago, the big new “thing” on the web was called “push technology,” i.e. finding ways to prevent user choice — the one feature which made the medium so attractive — and shepard users into “portal sites,” where they would be treated to the same gamut of advertising propaganda that they get 24/7 in every other activity of modern life.
A simple analysis would reveal that there are only about a dozen US news sources, and about 200 reporters and editors nationwide, at the most, who are agenda setters, pushing the news at us every day. The New York Times and Washington Post “set” the daily national agenda (most certainly on orders from above), and smaller regional and local papers, which don’t have the money for their own reporters, follow their lead, or run the same exact stories off the wire.
If I ran the CIA, and I didn’t have every single one of those two hundred sewn up as assets, one way or another, I simply would not be doing my job, and I would be worried that the President might fire my sorry ass. The system is so centralized, thanks to the “liberal” Clinton, that it is now child’s play to control the news — probably relegated to one single assistant under-secretary of something or another.
News is carefully tailored to fit the narrow constraints of the modern-day, industrially-bred, American sheep’s short and flighty attention span. One big story, several smaller ones for those who like variety, one “good-news” story, one outrage; the formula never changes, and neither do the stories very much, really. Just push, push, push.
We know enough, here at MoA, to recognize the broad outlines of this strategy. We know enough to see that we are already deep into Brehznev Soviet Union territory, where we must see who is standing next to whom to guess at the true power relations and what is really happening below the surface.
In any event, Bin Laden was chosen as carefully as a Supremme Court nominee. He was relatively young, in his late forties, guaranteeing a long career, should they want, in this “long war.” Besides, the stress never seems to be able to work its evil way into Bin Laden’s caves: he only gets younger as time goes by. Which is pretty good, since they are certainly keeping someone very busy churning these things out. For all we know, they have a whole stable of Bin Ladens acting out their nefarious role upon the world stage for all to watch and enjoy. It’s a new genre: Middle Eastern Post-Modern Gothic.
Posted by: Malooga | Sep 20 2007 17:51 utc | 3
You are far too mild, b.
Everything we are told is a lie. EVERYTHING. If it wasn’t a lie, it wouldn’t need to be told to us, it would be obvious and we would know it. If we were winning the fake “war on terror,” the stories wouldn’t say “We Are Winning,” they would say, “Drugs Found in Venezuelan Tanker,” or “Threat of Global Warming Forces Innovative New Pre-emtive Climate-Saving Intervention Strategy,” or some such other drivel. Anyone can make up the sad rationalizations the press bombards us with 24/7; it is evil child’s play, a simple parlor game.
Ten years ago, the big new “thing” on the web was called “push technology,” i.e. finding ways to prevent user choice — the one feature which made the medium so attractive — and shepard users into “portal sites,” where they would be treated to the same gamut of advertising propaganda that they get 24/7 in every other activity of modern life.
A simple analysis would reveal that there are only about a dozen US news sources, and about 200 reporters and editors nationwide, at the most, who are agenda setters, pushing the news at us every day. The New York Times and Washington Post “set” the daily national agenda (most certainly on orders from above), and smaller regional and local papers, which don’t have the money for their own reporters, follow their lead, or run the same exact stories off the wire.
If I ran the CIA, and I didn’t have every single one of those two hundred sewn up as assets, one way or another, I simply would not be doing my job, and I would be worried that the President might fire my sorry ass. The system is so centralized, thanks to the “liberal” Clinton, that it is now child’s play to control the news — probably relegated to one single assistant under-secretary of something or another.
News is carefully tailored to fit the narrow constraints of the modern-day, industrially-bred, American sheep’s short and flighty attention span. One big story, several smaller ones for those who like variety, one “good-news” story, one outrage; the formula never changes, and neither do the stories very much, really. Just push, push, push.
We know enough, here at MoA, to recognize the broad outlines of this strategy. We know enough to see that we are already deep into Brehznev Soviet Union territory, where we must see who is standing next to whom to guess at the true power relations and what is really happening below the surface.
In any event, Bin Laden was chosen as carefully as a Supremme Court nominee. He was relatively young, in his late forties, guaranteeing a long career, should they want, in this “long war.” Besides, the stress never seems to be able to work its evil way into Bin Laden’s caves: he only gets younger as time goes by. Which is pretty good, since they are certainly keeping someone very busy churning these things out. For all we know, they have a whole stable of Bin Ladens acting out their nefarious role upon the world stage for all to watch and enjoy. It’s a new genre: Middle Eastern Post-Modern Gothic.
Posted by: Malooga | Sep 20 2007 17:52 utc | 4
Yeppers, Steve, here is a photo of “Al Qaeda In Iraq” for your collection.
Whether Al queda exists or not, pre 2001 and pre 2003 especially, the idea of resistance to a global corporate domination was both western and non western and there was a fair bit of exchange. Now do I think there are radicals in Iraq? Well, I’ll put it this way, I guaran-Goddamn-tee you if Iraqi’s were on American soil doing the things we are doing over there, there would be more than just a little resistance.
If the actual question doesn’t simply deal with the label of “Al Qaeda”, but rather with the reality of the existence of well-funded and often very well-trained paramilitary groups associated with militant forms of Sunni Muslim, primarily Wahhabist, religio-political ideologies that pursue the goals of jihad through acts of violence, terrorism and warfare- the answer is “yes” and “no” but we opened that door. In other words, as much as Al qaeda is a Western intelligence construct, it is also real, now. Real in the bifurcation of ANYONE that doesn’t fit our aims is Al queda and It refers to the perpetrators of any acts of terror or resistance to our plans.
Further, Jeff mills says, “the “War on Terror” is inflaming passions and creating flesh and blood enemies, which is precisely what the war-makers require for their generational game. They needn’t hoax the fact that millions of Brzezinski’s “stirred-up Muslims” want their heads. They just need good intelligence to keep the game on script.”
Just as the saying goes, ‘If there were not a God we would have to create him, so to we have to create a controlled enantiodromia, of opposites in a echo chamber feedback loop to justify our stay. If there were no Al qaeda we’d have to fund them…etc.. it’s mostly, a sciamachy. We created this sanguinivorous monster, …blood, oil, and soon water, there is no difference.
As chris floyd writes,
It’s a shell game, with money, companies and corporate brands switching in a blur of buy-outs and bogus fronts. It’s a sinkhole, where mobbed-up operators, paid-off public servants, crazed Christian,[Jewish and Islamic] fascists, CIA shadow-jobbers, war-pimping arms dealers – and presidential family members – lie down together in the slime. It’s a hacker’s dream, with pork-funded, half-finished, secretly-programmed computer systems installed without basic security standards by politically-partisan private firms, and protected by law from public scrutiny. It’s how the United States, the “world’s greatest democracy,” casts its votes.
Personally, I’ve come to the point of needing hiring a saulie, as I am past the line of giving my power away to these fucks. I’m out of tears.
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Sep 21 2007 4:22 utc | 15
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