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"Termagnard" |
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19 Aug 2006 10:58:45 PM |
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Government refuses to authenticate bin Laden "confession video" |
Government refuses to authenticate bin Laden "confession video"
August 11, 2006 - In response to the July 10, 2006 Freedom of Information Act request made by the Muckraker Report to
the Federal Bureau of Investigation regarding the authenticity of the December 13, 2001 Osama bin Laden "confession
video" in which Osama bin Laden allegedly confesses his involvement and masterminding of 9/11, the FBI said:
The material you requested is located in an investigative file which is exempt from disclosure pursuant to Title 5,
United States Code, Section 552, subsection (b)(7)(A).
On December 13, 2001 the United States Department of Defense released the videotape allegedly of Osama bin Laden
confessing to his involvement with the events of September 11, 2001. The DoD also issued Press Release No. 630-01,
which indicated that the "confession video" was obtained by U.S. forces in Jalalabad, Afghanistan in late November 2001.
In the Muckraker Report FOIA the following documents were requested:
1. Documents related to the discovery of the December 13, 2001 Osama bin Laden video
2. Documents that demonstrate chain of custody of the December 13, 2001 Osama bin Laden video from the time it was
discovered in Afghanistan until it was released for media consumption
3. Documents that demonstrate an Israeli connection to the discovery of the December 13, 2001 Osama bin Laden
video - whether that connection be the IDF, Mossad, Israeli mercenaries, or any other person or agency influenced or
controlled by the state of Israel
4. Documents that reflect the purchase order and contract made by the U.S. government with George Michael,
Diplomatic Language Services, and Dr. Kassem M. Wahba, Arabic language program coordinator, School of Advanced
International Studies, John Hopkins University - Michael and Wahba are reported in DoD Press Release 630-01 to have been
responsible for the translation of the December 13, 2001 Osama bin Laden video.
5. Documents that demonstrate the authenticity process that the U.S. government undertook to authenticate the
December 13, 2001 Osama bin Laden video
6. Documents that demonstrate the outcome of the U.S. government's authenticity process. What the Muckraker Report
is seeking is a copy of an original U.S. government document that reflects the U.S. government declaring the December
13, 2001 Osama bin Laden video as authentic, not authentic, or suspect of authenticity
Please note that the Information Dissemination Section of the FBI did not respond to the Muckraker Report's Freedom of
Information Act Request by indicating that the documentation requested did not exist. It said that the material you
requested is located in an investigative file which is exempt from disclosure pursuant to Title 5, United States Code,
Section 552, subsection (b)(7)(A).
So what does Title 5, United States Code, Section 552, subsection (b)(7)(A) say? According to the Explanation of
Exemptions sheet included in the government response to Muckraker Report FOIA request:
(b)(7) records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes, but only to the extent that the production of such
law enforcement records or information (A) could be reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings
It's anyone's guess as to what (b)(7)(A) actually means, but it smells like more cover-up to me. One can only assume
that the interfere with enforcement proceedings segment means that if the truth were to be revealed to the world
regarding the circumstances and authenticity of the December 13, 2001 Osama bin Laden confession video, the neo con
would have a one dickens of a time enforcing its current policies - both foreign and domestic. The truth is all hell
would break loose if it was widely reported in the mockingbird mainstream media that the December 13, 2001 Osama bin
Laden confession video was a fabrication.
Again it must be noted, the U.S. government did not give a line item break down of the FOIA request. For instance, in
response to item 3, the FBI didn't respond by saying "no such documents exist." Instead, the U.S. government indicated
that the documents requested where located in an investigative file that is exempt from disclosure pursuant to Title 5,
United States Code, Section 552, subsection (b)(7)(A).
http://www.teamliberty.net
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| User: "mimus" |
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| Title: Re: Government refuses to authenticate bin Laden "confession video" |
19 Aug 2006 08:06:39 PM |
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On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 20:58:45 -0700, Termagnard wrote:
It's anyone's guess as to what (b)(7)(A) actually means, but it smells like more cover-up to me.
Or that Osama & Co. haven't been tried and convicted yet.
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Conservatism = plutocracy + theocracy + hypocrisy
Liberalism = plutocracy + psychosociocracy + hypocrisy
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| User: "Termagnard" |
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| Title: Re: Government refuses to authenticate bin Laden "confession video" |
19 Aug 2006 11:13:21 PM |
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"mimus" <tinmimus99@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:pan.2006.08.20.01.06.37.111515@hotmail.com...
On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 20:58:45 -0700, Termagnard wrote:
It's anyone's guess as to what (b)(7)(A) actually means, but it smells like more cover-up to me.
Or that Osama & Co. haven't been tried and convicted yet.
Has he been apprehended ?
Swiss institute brands latest bin Laden tape a fake
November 29 2002
Paris: The latest audiotape statement attributed to Osama bin Laden is not authentic, according to a Swiss research
institute.
The Lausanne-based Dalle Molle Institute for Perceptual Artificial Intelligence, IDIAP, said it was 95 per cent certain
the tape does not feature bin Laden's voice.
The review of the tape was commissioned by France-2 television and its findings were presented by the institute's
director, Professor Herve Bourlard, in a TV report.
Bourlard said the institute compared the voice on the tape, first aired two weeks ago on Al-Jazeera, an Arabic
television network, with some 20 earlier recordings attributed to bin Laden.
Bourlard, a voice recognition expert, has worked extensively with the International Computer Science Institute at
Berkeley, California. He has also worked as co-editor-in-chief of the Speech Communication journal with ICSI director
Nelson Morgan, and as an adviser to the European Commission. He is the author or co-author of 150 research papers and
two books.
On its Internet site, the IDIAP describes itself as a semiprivate research institute affiliated with the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology, a highly respected organisation, and the University of Geneva. It carries out research in the
fields of speech and speaker recognition, computer vision and machine learning.
Officials at the institute could not be reached for comment late today.
US experts have maintained the tape will likely never be fully authenticated because its poor quality defies complete
analysis by even the most sophisticated voice print technology.
But US experts who have heard it generally support the conclusion by US law enforcement officials that it probably is
bin Laden speaking.
In the tape, the speaker refers to recent terrorist strikes US officials believe are connected to bin Laden's al-Qaeda
network. If fully verified, it would provide the first evidence in a year that bin Laden survived US bombing in
Afghanistan.
AP
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/11/29/1038386299712.html
Conservatism = plutocracy + theocracy + hypocrisy
Liberalism = plutocracy + psychosociocracy + hypocrisy
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