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There have been several videos released by Osama bin Laden. Many of the Osama bin Laden tapes have been released directly (by mail or messenger) to Arabic language satellite television networks like Al Jazeera or Al Araabiya.
On September 16, 2001, Osama bin Laden issued the following statement via al Jazeera in reference to the 9/11 attacks: "I stress that I have not carried out this act, which appears to have been carried out by individuals with their own motivation." [1]
On December 9, 2001 U.S. military forces in Jalalabad found a video tape of bin Laden [2].
On December 13, 2001, the United States State Department released a video tape apparently showing Osama bin Laden speaking with Khaled al-Harbi and other associates, somewhere in Afghanistan, before the U.S. invasion had driven the [Taliban] regime from Kandahar. The State Department stated that the tape was captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan during a raid on a house in Jalalabad.[3] The tape was aired with an accompanying [4] English translation. In this translation, Osama bin Laden displays knowledge of the timing of the actual attack a few days in advance [5]; the translation attributes the following lines to bin Laden:
:"we calculated in advance the number of casualties from the enemy, who would be killed based on the position of the tower. We calculated that the floors that would be hit would be three or four floors. I was the most optimistic of them all...We had notification since the previous Thursday that the event would take place that day. We had finished our work that day and had the radio on...Muhammad (Atta) from the Egyptian family (''meaning the Al Qaida Egyptian group''), was in charge of the group...The brothers, who conducted the operation, all they knew was that they have a martyrdom operation and we asked each of them to go to America but they didn't know anything about the operation, not even one letter. But they were trained and we did not reveal the operation to them until they are there and just before they boarded the planes."[6]
On September 9, 2002 an audio tape made by bin Laden was broadcast on al Jazeera. [7]
Quatar Al Jazeera broadcasted the unautheticated bin Laden Recording. US law enforcement officials report bin Laden is probably the speaker on the tape. US experts who have heard or processed the tape usually support that conclusion. The result of IDIAP Research shows that the tape is fake at 93% of accuracy. [8]
On February 12, 2003, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell told a Senate panel that he had reviewed a transcript of a message from bin Laden stating he was in “partnership with Iraq" which was to be broadcast on al Jazeera. [9] Al Jazeera initially denied having the tape, [10] but subsequently located it. [11]
Main articles: 2004 bin Laden video
Shortly before the U.S. presidential election on 29 October 2004, Arab television network Al Jazeera broadcast an 18 minute video tape of Osama bin Laden, addressed to citizens of the United States. According to the English translation distributed by the BBC and other media outlets, he tells viewers he personally directed the 19 hijackers,[12] and describes his motivation:
Bin Laden claimed he was inspired to destroy the World Trade Center after watching the destruction of towers in Lebanon by Israel during the 1982 Lebanon War.[15]
Main articles: 19 January 2006 Osama bin Laden tape
On 19 January 2006, Al Jazeera broadcast an audiotape of Osama bin Laden again addressing citizens of the United States [16].
On 23 April 2006, Al Jazeera broadcast parts of an audiotape. On this tape bin Laden accuses the Western world of waging a Zionist crusade against Islam [17]. He comments on Hamas, Darfur and the situation in Iraq.
On May 23rd 2006 Al Jazeera broadcasted a 5 minute audiotape from bin Laden were he claims he alone assigned the hijackers to perform the September 11, 2001 attacks. Bin Laden comments on the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay and the imprisoned journalists Sami al-Hajj and Tayssir Alouni, denying any of them (apart from a few Guantanamo Bay prisoners) were connected with Al-Qaeda.[18]
Bin Laden tells viewers Zacarias Moussaoui "had no connection at all with Sept. 11. I am the one in charge of the 19 brothers and I never assigned brother Zacarias to be with them in that mission. I am certain of what I say because I was responsible for entrusting the 19 brothers ... with the raids." [19].
On June 30 2006, an Islamist website posted a recording in which bin Laden praised Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as a "lion of holy war". The nineteen-minute video shows a still picture of Bin Laden next to video celebrating al-Zarqawi. US officials said the tape was authentic.[20]
On September 7th, 2006 a videotape of previously unaired footage of Osama bin Laden and two of the hijackers was broadcast on Al-Jazeera TV. The videotape was believed to have been shot in Afghanistan some weeks before the attack and includes scenes of men training with weapons and box cutters, and hand to hand combat. [21] The video was released four days prior to the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael P. Jackson, suggested at the time the video might be a signal to Al-Qaeda supporters in the United States to initiate a terrorist attack on the fifth anniversary of 9/11, but no such attack came to pass.
On July 14, 2007, a few days after the Lal Masjid siege, by the Pakistani government, and after a video released by Ayman al-Zawarihhi, bin Laden released a tape. He was shown with a fatigued expression. He appeared in a video clip, less than a minute long, on a militant website. BBC News reports that it was ''"undated and correspondents say it may be re-run footage. Its authenticity also cannot be independently verified."'' [22]
On September 7, 2007 an entirely new videotape of Osama Bin Laden was aired[23]. This his first new appearance in over three years. In the tape he mentions no acts of terrorism or war against the United States, but targets the Democrats, the War, and the PMs of Great Britain. He strongly urges the United States to convert to Islam, and stop the war. In it he also mentions that if they do not convert, then even more American soldiers will die. In the movie Bin Laden mentions the new President of France, and Global warming.
2007 Osama Video
1. [1] Foxnews
2. [2] PBS
3. U.S. releases video tape of Osama bin Laden
4. [3] Defenselink
5. BBC: Tape 'proves Bin Laden's guilt'
6. transcript of Osama bin Laden video tape
7. [4] BBC
8.
★ IDIAP Research Institute (December 2002). ''IDIAP analysis of the latest bin Laden tape''
9. [5] CNN
10. [6] Information Clearinghouse
11. [7] Information Clearinghouse
12. Al-Jazeera: Bin Laden tape obtained in Pakistan -
13. Excerpts: Bin Laden video
14. Excerpts: Bin Laden video
15. Excerpts: Bin Laden video. BBC Online/
16. [8] NT Times The link here requires a login.
17. [9] CNN
18. CNN May 23rd 2006
19. [10] Newsday
20. New Bin Laden message is released
21. [11] BBC
22. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6899398.stm
23. BBC: Trimmed Bin Laden in media-savvy war
★ Numbers 3 and 5 have incorrect dates and should read December 13, 2001, not September. "Bin Laden Re-emerges, Warning U.S. While Offering 'Truce'" by Hassan Fattah and Douglas Jehl, ''The New York Times,'' retrieved January 19, 2006
★ CNN.com Tapes shed new light on bin Laden's network
★ BBC transcripts and news items of the December 13 2001 tape
★ US Government transcript of the December 13 2001 tape (PDF)
★ Guardian resume of January 19th 2006 tape.
★ Guardian about Moussaoui and Guantanamo Bay of May 23rd 2006 tape.
★ Guardian May 23rd tape 2006 about Sami al-Hajj and Tayssir Alouni.
★ Guardian resume of June 30th 2006 tape.
★ Guardian Unlimited List of all al-Qaida tapes.
Videos shown on public media
September 16, 2001
On September 16, 2001, Osama bin Laden issued the following statement via al Jazeera in reference to the 9/11 attacks: "I stress that I have not carried out this act, which appears to have been carried out by individuals with their own motivation." [1]
December 13, 2001
On December 9, 2001 U.S. military forces in Jalalabad found a video tape of bin Laden [2].
On December 13, 2001, the United States State Department released a video tape apparently showing Osama bin Laden speaking with Khaled al-Harbi and other associates, somewhere in Afghanistan, before the U.S. invasion had driven the [Taliban] regime from Kandahar. The State Department stated that the tape was captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan during a raid on a house in Jalalabad.[3] The tape was aired with an accompanying [4] English translation. In this translation, Osama bin Laden displays knowledge of the timing of the actual attack a few days in advance [5]; the translation attributes the following lines to bin Laden:
:"we calculated in advance the number of casualties from the enemy, who would be killed based on the position of the tower. We calculated that the floors that would be hit would be three or four floors. I was the most optimistic of them all...We had notification since the previous Thursday that the event would take place that day. We had finished our work that day and had the radio on...Muhammad (Atta) from the Egyptian family (''meaning the Al Qaida Egyptian group''), was in charge of the group...The brothers, who conducted the operation, all they knew was that they have a martyrdom operation and we asked each of them to go to America but they didn't know anything about the operation, not even one letter. But they were trained and we did not reveal the operation to them until they are there and just before they boarded the planes."[6]
September 9, 2002
On September 9, 2002 an audio tape made by bin Laden was broadcast on al Jazeera. [7]
November 12, 2002
Quatar Al Jazeera broadcasted the unautheticated bin Laden Recording. US law enforcement officials report bin Laden is probably the speaker on the tape. US experts who have heard or processed the tape usually support that conclusion. The result of IDIAP Research shows that the tape is fake at 93% of accuracy. [8]
February 12, 2003
On February 12, 2003, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell told a Senate panel that he had reviewed a transcript of a message from bin Laden stating he was in “partnership with Iraq" which was to be broadcast on al Jazeera. [9] Al Jazeera initially denied having the tape, [10] but subsequently located it. [11]
October 29, 2004
Main articles: 2004 bin Laden video
Shortly before the U.S. presidential election on 29 October 2004, Arab television network Al Jazeera broadcast an 18 minute video tape of Osama bin Laden, addressed to citizens of the United States. According to the English translation distributed by the BBC and other media outlets, he tells viewers he personally directed the 19 hijackers,[12] and describes his motivation:
I will explain to you the reasons behind these events, and I will tell you the truth about the moments when this decision was taken, so that you can reflect on it. God knows that the plan of striking the towers had not occurred to us, but the idea came to me when things went just too far with the American-Israeli alliance's oppression and atrocities against our people in Palestine and Lebanon.[13][13]
Bin Laden claimed he was inspired to destroy the World Trade Center after watching the destruction of towers in Lebanon by Israel during the 1982 Lebanon War.[15]
January 19, 2006
Main articles: 19 January 2006 Osama bin Laden tape
On 19 January 2006, Al Jazeera broadcast an audiotape of Osama bin Laden again addressing citizens of the United States [16].
April 23, 2006
On 23 April 2006, Al Jazeera broadcast parts of an audiotape. On this tape bin Laden accuses the Western world of waging a Zionist crusade against Islam [17]. He comments on Hamas, Darfur and the situation in Iraq.
May 23rd, 2006
On May 23rd 2006 Al Jazeera broadcasted a 5 minute audiotape from bin Laden were he claims he alone assigned the hijackers to perform the September 11, 2001 attacks. Bin Laden comments on the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay and the imprisoned journalists Sami al-Hajj and Tayssir Alouni, denying any of them (apart from a few Guantanamo Bay prisoners) were connected with Al-Qaeda.[18]
Bin Laden tells viewers Zacarias Moussaoui "had no connection at all with Sept. 11. I am the one in charge of the 19 brothers and I never assigned brother Zacarias to be with them in that mission. I am certain of what I say because I was responsible for entrusting the 19 brothers ... with the raids." [19].
June 30, 2006
On June 30 2006, an Islamist website posted a recording in which bin Laden praised Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as a "lion of holy war". The nineteen-minute video shows a still picture of Bin Laden next to video celebrating al-Zarqawi. US officials said the tape was authentic.[20]
September 7, 2006
On September 7th, 2006 a videotape of previously unaired footage of Osama bin Laden and two of the hijackers was broadcast on Al-Jazeera TV. The videotape was believed to have been shot in Afghanistan some weeks before the attack and includes scenes of men training with weapons and box cutters, and hand to hand combat. [21] The video was released four days prior to the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael P. Jackson, suggested at the time the video might be a signal to Al-Qaeda supporters in the United States to initiate a terrorist attack on the fifth anniversary of 9/11, but no such attack came to pass.
July 14, 2007
On July 14, 2007, a few days after the Lal Masjid siege, by the Pakistani government, and after a video released by Ayman al-Zawarihhi, bin Laden released a tape. He was shown with a fatigued expression. He appeared in a video clip, less than a minute long, on a militant website. BBC News reports that it was ''"undated and correspondents say it may be re-run footage. Its authenticity also cannot be independently verified."'' [22]
September 7, 2007
On September 7, 2007 an entirely new videotape of Osama Bin Laden was aired[23]. This his first new appearance in over three years. In the tape he mentions no acts of terrorism or war against the United States, but targets the Democrats, the War, and the PMs of Great Britain. He strongly urges the United States to convert to Islam, and stop the war. In it he also mentions that if they do not convert, then even more American soldiers will die. In the movie Bin Laden mentions the new President of France, and Global warming.
2007 Osama Video
References
1. [1] Foxnews
2. [2] PBS
3. U.S. releases video tape of Osama bin Laden
4. [3] Defenselink
5. BBC: Tape 'proves Bin Laden's guilt'
6. transcript of Osama bin Laden video tape
7. [4] BBC
8.
★ IDIAP Research Institute (December 2002). ''IDIAP analysis of the latest bin Laden tape''
9. [5] CNN
10. [6] Information Clearinghouse
11. [7] Information Clearinghouse
12. Al-Jazeera: Bin Laden tape obtained in Pakistan -
13. Excerpts: Bin Laden video
14. Excerpts: Bin Laden video
15. Excerpts: Bin Laden video. BBC Online/
16. [8] NT Times The link here requires a login.
17. [9] CNN
18. CNN May 23rd 2006
19. [10] Newsday
20. New Bin Laden message is released
21. [11] BBC
22. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6899398.stm
23. BBC: Trimmed Bin Laden in media-savvy war
★ Numbers 3 and 5 have incorrect dates and should read December 13, 2001, not September. "Bin Laden Re-emerges, Warning U.S. While Offering 'Truce'" by Hassan Fattah and Douglas Jehl, ''The New York Times,'' retrieved January 19, 2006
External links
★ CNN.com Tapes shed new light on bin Laden's network
★ BBC transcripts and news items of the December 13 2001 tape
★ US Government transcript of the December 13 2001 tape (PDF)
★ Guardian resume of January 19th 2006 tape.
★ Guardian about Moussaoui and Guantanamo Bay of May 23rd 2006 tape.
★ Guardian May 23rd tape 2006 about Sami al-Hajj and Tayssir Alouni.
★ Guardian resume of June 30th 2006 tape.
★ Guardian Unlimited List of all al-Qaida tapes.
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