U.S. trying to determine age of purported bin Laden tape

[JLB]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/07/binladen.tape/index.html

[JLB]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. government is analyzing a videotape that appears to show Osama bin Laden, according to a U.S. official.

The assessment will include whether it is really bin Laden and if the tape is old or new, according to the source.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff Friday would not confirm that a new tape had been received, saying only the U.S. follows a standard procedure to thoroughly analyze any tapes it has received.

"We review it for authenticity, we review it to see when we think it was made, if it's a single tape or a compilation of outtakes. We look to see if there are overt messages or hidden messages," he said.

He did say it was not unusual for al Qaeda to release tapes near the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Tuesday will mark six years since the al Qaeda attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

[JLB]

early reports no threat found on tape.

[rob on the job]

Is this the tape where Osama ends it by singing "My Way"?

[JLB]

do you have that?

[JLB]

voice on video tape is Bin Laden

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/07/binladen.tape/index.html

[mark3274]

who cares....
omg the headchoppers the head choppers no one cares about osama bin reject who by the way was up the bush familys $$#%% before all the terror bs started... how funny is that.

[Lucidvizion]

Yep. Emmanuel Goldstein escaped narrow death, and he even looks younger (his beard is black!!!). On top of that he's looking as healthy and virile as ever.

[Green Lantern]

Yep. Emmanuel Goldstein escaped narrow death, and he even looks younger (his beard is black!!!). On top of that he's looking as healthy and virile as ever.

Think they are just playing an old tape?

[Lucidvizion]

Think they are just playing an old tape?

No... I think he's alive and as well as the video depicts. Living in some underground taxpayer funded bunker/resort sipping Mai-Tai's, somewhere in the northeast side of the Mojave desert, California. Whatever. He's living cushy.