Editor's Note: Not many
people know that, after September 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden issued a
statement on tape that he had nothing to do with the attacks on America
and that such actions were against the teachings of Islam. Americans were
prevented from accessing this information because we were told that Osama
could possibly have an embedded "secret code" in the tape that would alert
other terrorists cells to "activate" and target other American cities.

Later, another video tape miraculously appeared to validate his guilt
in the attacks. The video tape, showing a man who was allegedly Osama bin
Laden discussing and bragging about his rold in the 9-11 attacks, was
shown on American television along with Arabic-English translations of the
conversations. Did you know that this tape has since been recognized as a
fake? Not many news media reported this. The "Osama" in the tape is
actually a known Egyptian militant who is not as tall and much too heavy
to be Osama. I'll just bet you didn't know that tape was a fake! It wasn't
reported on CNN.

Now we have had another audio tape allegedly from Osama. We were told
that it is "proof" that he committed the 9-11 attacks. The "Osama" voice
is apparently saying that the so-called 10th hijacker who was charged in
American courts is actually innocent, but the real purpose of the tape is
to acknowledge Osama's admission of ordering the 9-11 attacks. Well, hold
on because now it appears that this tape is also fake. It's yet another
Bush disinformation camapign to make people angry at Islamics and Arabs
and to continue the blame game and justify the wars in Afghanistan and
Iraq as a prelude to yet another miserable war in Iran.

But... read for yourself...

Duluth, MN (PRWEB) May 30, 2006 -- The latest audio
tape attributed to Osama bin Laden appears to be one more installment in a
succession of evidence fabricated by the US government to deceive the
American people, according to Scholars for 9/11 Truth.

"This tape is only the latest in a series of fabrications
intended to mislead the American people," said James H. Fetzer, the
society's founder. "The closer we get to revealing the truth about 9/11,
the more furiously the government fights to conceal it!" He said members
of Scholars and other experts had detected evidence of fakery.

In this new recording, a voice attributed to Osama bin Laden asserts
that Zacarias Moussaoui was not involved in 9/11, which he knew to be the
case because he had personally assigned the 19 hijackers involved in those
events. The Osama of this tape thereby implicitly confesses his
responsibility for orchestrating the attacks. However, in a tape released
on December 27, 2001, the authenticity of which is not in doubt, Osama
denied having had anything to do with 9/11. "Moreover," Fetzer added,
"some of the 19 hijackers he 'personally assigned' have turned up alive
and well."

To be sure, this new tape is not the first one in which bin Laden
appears to take responsibility for the attacks. As David Ray Griffin, a
prominent member of Scholars, points out, "The Osama on the video tape
that appeared on December 13, 2001, confessed to planning the 9/11
attacks. But he is far darker and much heavier than the real Osama bin
Laden. People can see the difference by looking up 'The Fake bin Laden
Video Tape' on Google."

Griffin's point is supported by a work-in-progress by members of
Scholars for 9/11 Truth, which appears on its web site under the heading,
"9/11: Have we been lied to?" It offers evidence of fakery in some of the
videos based upon various physical properties of the figures that are
presumed to be Osama, pointing out that there are differences in the ears,
cheeks, eyebrows, length of the nose and shape of the nostrils. "The use
of computer analysis can 'fine tune' these questions of facial
characteristics," Fetzer said, "but the gross differences already show
they are not the same."

Content Inconsistencies

"Another problem with the video of December 13, 2001," Griffin pointed
out, "was that its stocky bin Laden praised two of the alleged hijackers,
Wail M. Al-Shehri and Salem al-Hazmi, by name, and yet both the London
Telegraph and the Saudi embassy reported several days after 9/11 that
al-Hazmi was still alive and working in Saudi Arabia. Given the fact that
the earlier video in which Osama confessed was clearly a fake, we should
be suspicious of this latest apparent confession."

A professor at Duke, Bruce Lawrence, who has published Messages to the
World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden, expressed profound skepticism
about a tape that was released January 17, 2006, in a report that appeared
two days later. "There's nothing in this from the Koran," Lawrence said.
"He's, by his own standards, a faithful Muslim who quotes scripture in
defense of his actions. There's no quotation from the Koran in the
excerpts we got, no reference to specific events, no reference to past
atrocities." Lawrence also observed the tape ran only 10 minutes, whereas
the shortest previous tape, at 18 minutes, was nearly twice as long.

Fetzer noted that many of the same anomalous properties are found in
the latest tape. "Compared to Osama's past performances," he observed,
"this message is too short, too direct, and full of falsehoods. It was
even described on CBS News by Bob Schieffer as 'almost American'." A
translation of the text of the tape has also been released by IntelCenter,
a private company that does contract work for the US government. "I
suppose I would be accused of being a 'conspiracy theorist' to suggest
there is any connection," Fetzer added.

Authentic Voice/Fake Content

Informed that Reuters news agency has reported confirmation that the
voice on the tape is indeed that of Osama bin Laden, Fetzer replied, "The
fact that the voice is his does not prove that the tape is authentic. We
have had phony tapes before using voices that were authentic. Mark
Bingham, a passenger on Flight 93, is supposed to have called his mother
and said, 'Hi, Mom, this is Mark Bingham!' His mother confirmed it was his
voice, but does anyone seriously believe that Mark Bingham would have used
his last name in identifying himself to his mother?"

Griffin agreed, adding, "Back in 1999, William Arkin published an
article entitled, 'When Seeing and Hearing isn't Believing' (which can
also be accessed on Google). Describing the new technology of 'voice
morphing' (or 'voice synthesizing'), Arkin explained that, if audio
technicians have a recording of your voice, then they can create a tape in
which your voice‹your authentic voice!‹says anything they wish."

In a press release on April 22, 2006, the Scholars observed that a tape
played at the trail of Zacarias Moussaoui included discussion among the
passengers about using a drink cart to break down the cabin door alleged
to have been picked up on a cockpit voice recorder, which does not record
conversations in the passenger cabin. "This is not the first and certainly
will not be the last time that the American government plays the American
people for suckers," Fetzer said.

"We have just acquired new evidence that the Pentagon video tapes were
processed and manipulated in an apparent effort to distort or conceal what
happened there on 9/11," Fetzer observed. "Apparently, whenever the
government feels the need to bolster the official myth about 9/11, it
simply fabricates a new tape! Anybody who wants to keep score should visit
our web site."

Scholars for 9/11 Truth is a non-partisan society of experts and
scholars dedicated to exposing falsehoods and establishing truths about
the events of 9/11. It maintains a web site at st911.org, where it
archives its studies, documents, records and evidence.

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Top Bin Laden Expert: The Tapes are Fakes

Kevin Barrett

As a PhD in Islamic and Arabic Studies, I hate to say this,
but I’ll say it anyway. The events of 9/11 had nothing to do with Islam.
The war on terror itself is as phony as the latest “Bin Laden tape.”
(Guardian 04)

It’s tough to admit because I know on which side my bread is buttered -
and dropping Islam from the 9/11 equation is like dropping my bread
butter-side-down. The myth that 9/11 had something to do with has poured
millions into Arabic and Islamic studies. I finished my PhD in 2005, so
all I have to do is keep my eyes in my pocket and my nose to the ground,
parrot the party line, and I’ll be on the fast track to tenure.

The trouble is, it’s all based on a big lie. Take the recent “Bin Laden
tape,” - please! That voice was no more Bin Laden than it was my late Aunt
Corinne from Peoria. I recently helped translate a previously unknown Bin
Laden tape, a real one from the early 90’s, back when he was still alive.
I know the guy’s flowery religious rhetoric. The recent tape certainly
wasn't him.

The top American Bin Laden expert agrees. Professor Bruce Lawrence,
head of Duke University’s Religious Studies Department, has just finished
a book of translations of Bin Laden’s speeches. He says the recent tape is
a fake and that Bin Laden has been dead for years. (ABC 2004).

Ersatz Bin Laden tapes “verified” by the CIA are nothing new. Every Bin
Laden statement since 2001 has been blatantly bogus. The last we heard
from the real Bin Laden were the following words recorded by Pakistani
journalists: “I stress that I have not carried out this act, which appears
to have been carried out by individuals with their own motivation . . . I
have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks on
the United States . . . I had no knowledge of these attacks. . .” (Wiki
2004)

Then, on December 13, 2001, as George Bush was whining about the
“outrageous conspiracy theories” that were spreading like wildfire, the
first and shoddiest of the “Bin Laden Speaks from the Grave” tapes
appeared. The video’s sound and picture quality were horrible. It showed a
big guy with a black beard, doing a passable imitation of Bin ’s voice,
claiming foreknowledge, if not responsibility for the 9/11 attacks and
chortling over their success. The trouble was, the big guy was clearly not
Bin Laden. He was at least 40 or 50 pounds heavier and his facial features
were obviously different. (911Res 2005)

The “Fatty Bin Laden tape” was widely ridiculed and I have yet to meet
an informed observer who considers it authentic. (If you haven’t figured
this out yet, go back and look at the images from the tape and compare
them to other images of Bin Laden.) But the media let the fraud pass
without asking the hard questions. Why was the US government waving this
blatantly fake “confession” video in our faces?

Perhaps due to the widespread hilarity evoked by Fatty Bin Laden, the
next Ousama-from-beyond-the-grave message had no images: It was an audio
tape delivered to al-Jazeera in the fall of 2002. The CIA verified it as
“authentic,” but ended up with egg on its face when the world’s leading
voice identification experts at IDIAP in Switzerland reported that “the
message was recorded by an impostor.” (Guardian 2002)

Every Bin Laden message since then has been equally phony. They are
released at moments when the Bush regime needs a boost - and the American
(mainstream) media go along with the fraud. Remember the bogus Bin Laden
tape that made headlines right before the 2004 elections? If you didn’t
figure out that it was a CIA-produced commercial for George Bush, I have
some great bridges to sell you. Walter Cronkite, bless his heart, opined
that Karl Rove was behind that tape. (CNN ) But the rest of the media just
kept pretending that the Emperor was clothed.

And the fraud continues. Last week’s [need a date if you don’t want
this article to age prematurely] Bin Laden tape has been ridiculed by
America’s top Bin Laden expert, yet the US media gamely held its tattered
fig leaf over the Emperor’s loins. Professor Lawrence believes that the
tape was designed to distract world opinion from the horrific massacre of
Pakistani civilians by an errant CIA drone. But it may have another, more
sinister purpose: To prepare public opinion for another false-flag
9/11-style attack designed to trigger a US-Israel nuclear attack on Iran.
(AC 2005)

As our top Bin Laden expert Professor Lawrence says, the real Bin
Laden, who insisted that he had nothing to do with 9/11, has been dead
since 2001. The fake messages have been fabricated by al-CIA-duh to
support the Bush regime and its phony “war on terror.” It is time for
Americans to rise up against the masters of synthetic terror who have been
looting the US taxpayer, torching the Constitution, demolishing the
economy, and threatening a nuclear Armageddon.

About the author

Dr Barrett holds a PhD in Arabic, with a focus on Islamic studies, from
the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is cofounder of the
Muslim-Christian-Jewish Alliance for 9/11 Truth: http://mujca.com

References

(Guardian 04) The Making of the Terror Myth. The Guardian, Oct 10 2004.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1327904,00.html

(ABC 04) A. Rupinta. Duke Professor Sceptical of Bin Laden Tape. ABC
News, Jan. 19, 2006.

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?%20section=local=3828678

(Wiki 2004) Responsibility for the September 11, 2001 Attacks.
Wikipedia, 2004.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_for_the_September_11,_2001_attacks

(911Res 2005) “Fatty” bin Laden. 911 Research. 2005.

http://911research.wtc7.net/disinfo/deceptions/binladinvideo.html

(Guardian 2002) B. Whittaker. Swiss Scientists 95% Sure that Bin Laden
Recording Was a Fake. The Guardian, Jan 30, 2002.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,12469,851112,00.html

(CNN 2004) Larry King Live. Bin Laden Releases New Videotape. CNN. Oct
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http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0410/29/lkl.01.html?

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http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/binladen_cronkite.html

(AC 2005) Deep Background. American Conservative. Aug. 1, 2005.

http://www.amconmag.com/2005_08_01/article3.html

discussed in Antiwar.com [hot link to “Antiwar.com” to following URL.]

http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=6734