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 24, 2004.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0410/29/lkl.01.html

Referred to in WRH. [hot link “WRH” to following URL:]

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