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Bin Laden threatens France

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Bin Laden threatens France

The leader of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, has called for the withdrawal of French troops from Muslim lands in exchange for the release of hostages, in an audio message.

Referring to French hostages being held in Niger, the speaker on the tape, who sounded like Bin Laden, says their release depended on moves by their own government.

He says France will pay dearly for its policy in Afghanistan and elsewhere.

"President Nicolas Sarkozy's refusal to remove his forces from Afghanistan is nothing but a green light for killing the French hostages," Bin Laden says in the recording, broadcast on Al Jazeera on Friday.

"We repeat the same message to you: The release of your prisoners in the hands of our brothers is linked to the withdrawal of your soldiers from our country."

Photoshopped rendering of Bin Laden showing Obama what a rifle looks like.

This is the second tape that Bin Laden, believed to be hiding in the mountainous border areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan, has released an audio recording attacking French policy and linking the French presence in Afghanistan to the kidnapping of its nationals in Niger.

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Revelations from Kent State audio tape prompt congressional inquiry

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Revelations from Kent State audio tape prompt congressional inquiry | cleveland.com:

"CLEVELAND, Ohio — U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich is launching a congressional inquiry into an altercation and apparent pistol fire that occurred about 70 seconds before Ohio National Guardsmen shot students and antiwar protesters on May 4, 1970.

The violent clash and four shots from a .38-caliber revolver were captured by a student's tape recorder, placed in a dormitory window. The sounds of the altercation recently were discovered by Stuart Allen, a forensic audio expert who analyzed the 40-year-old tape at The Plain Dealer's request. The newspaper reported Allen's findings Friday.

Kucinich, who chairs a House sub-committee with oversight of the FBI and Justice Department, said the paper's account prompted his inquiry."

The above article was written as if this is the first time the tape has been examined. Far from the truth. I recall news specials about this in the 1970s that included audio analysis and a new one seems to crop-up every ten years or so. This article actually mentions prior analysis and includes the audio, embedded several paragraphs down. It mentions that a copy was found in a library archive in 2007 and the tape was "long forgotten."

Allow me to bring you a few steps away from the romantic fantasy of the Kent State riots and how old evidence is made new. That's right, I said old evidence. The Terry Strubbe tape, as it should be called, was used in a film that was in evidence during the 1975 civil trials (abstract) brought by the victims and reported by the New York Times on 3 August 1975.

The Pittsburgh Post Gazette reported on 21 December 1973, that the Terry Strubbe tape was used in a grand jury trial then.

The Akron Beacon Journal, reported on 8 March 2001, almost the same account as is reported as "new" now (abstract):

KENT STATE TRAGEDY ECHOES ON AUDIOTAPE \ FORMER STUDENT GOES PUBLIC WITH 1970 RECORDING THAT CAPTURES DEADLY GUNFIRE IN CAMPUS PROTEST.
You hear the first alone and clearly, then quickly several more gunshots - pop, poppoppoppop - one blast atop another. A roar from the crowd kills the sound. The brief silence is broken by an unknown young man's anguished obscenity. Sirens wail, then fade. Three decades after the May 4, 1970, shootings at Kent State University, the crackling sounds on tape are a record of a tragedy that was one of the defining moments in the political legacy of Gov....

Well before 2001 there were reports shots fired, recorded on the tape, before the National Guard opened fire. The new analysis, of the same old tape,  indicates a .38 caliber pistol made the sounds.

How can a tape be "long forgotten" between 2001 and 2007? The same tape that was trotted out in 1970, 1973, 1975 and 2001. I really wish that I could remember the news specials and documentaries that the tape was used in throughout the 1970s, '80s and after. Just remembering that this tape is not a new discovery helped me find the print articles above. Anybody working for the old major networks who sees this may have access to more specific research tools than Google to help uncover the never-ending analysis of this tape.


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Osama Bin Laden Liberaltarian tape on relief work: 'Stop fighting me with armies and spend your money elsewhere'

BBC News - 'Osama Bin Laden' tape on relief work:

"In the 11-minute undated tape, Bin Laden expresses concern over natural disasters and calls for more aid for victims, said intelligence group Site.

The tape shows a still image of Bin Laden and scenes of people in disaster zones receiving aid.

The tape would be Bin Laden's first public comments since March, but its authenticity has not been confirmed.

In it, the voice says more people are affected by climate change than wars and appears to refer to recent flooding in Pakistan.

'The catastrophe (in Pakistan) is very big and it is difficult to describe it,' he says.

'What we are facing... calls for generous souls and brave men to take serious and prompt action to provide relief for their Muslim brothers in Pakistan.'"

Translation: Stop fighting my people with your military and spend your money on something else.

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