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Bin Laden Home Videos Released ... Why Does the Terrorist Kingpin Look Better Than He Did in 2001?
The Pentagon has released "home made videos" by Bin Laden, supposedly seized from the Pakistani compound in which he was killed:
In the newly-release videos, Bin Laden looks better than he did years ago. Specifically, this is what Bin Laden looked like in December 2001:
Bin Laden December 27, 2001 video
Bin
Laden was pretty ill by December 2001. As CNN terrorism analyst Peter
Bergen - who met Bin Laden and studied him and his operation for several
years - told CNN in 2002:
He's aged enormously between '97 and October of last year.
This is a man who was clearly not well. I mean, as you see from these
pictures here, he's really, by December he's looking pretty terrible.
But by December, of course, that tape that was aired then, he's barely
moving the left side of his body. So he's clearly got diabetes. He has
low blood pressure. He's got a wound in his foot. He's apparently got
dialysis ... for kidney problems.
I mean, this is a
man who has a number of health problems, apart from the fact that
anybody running around the Afghan mountains is not going to be in great
shape.
Indeed, the oldest - and second-largest - French newspaper claims that Bin Laden was in a hospital for kidney failure two months before 9/11. As the Guardian notes:
Two months before September 11 Osama bin Laden flew to Dubai for 10 days for treatment at the American hospital, where he was visited by the local CIA agent, according to the French newspaper Le Figaro.
The
disclosures are known to come from French intelligence which is keen
to reveal the ambiguous role of the CIA, and to restrain Washington
from extending the war to Iraq and elsewhere.
Bin Laden is reported to have arrived in Dubai on July 4 from Quetta in Pakistan with his own personal doctor, nurse and four bodyguards, to be treated in the urology department.
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Bin Laden has often
been reported to be in poor health. Some accounts claim that he is
suffering from Hepatitis C, and can expect to live for only two more
years.
According to Le Figaro, last year he ordered a mobile dialysis machine to be delivered to his base at Kandahar in Afghanistan.
And CBS news reported that Bin Laden was ill on September 10th, being treated in a Pakistan hospital with kidney dialysis:
In
addition, it is rumored that Bin Laden had Marfan Syndrome - a disorder
of the connective tissue, which usually shortens the life span (Abraham
Lincoln had Marfan).
As Salon noted in November 2001:
Judging
by photos and the FBI's physical records, Osama bin Laden could be a
candidate for the diagnosis. He is said to be between 6 foot 4 inches
and 6 foot 6, which is apparently unusual for his family. He is thin,
bony and has little muscle; he weighs only 160 pounds. And he uses a
cane -- possibly the result of connective tissue or back problems.
Other information about the leader of al-Qaida suggests he may have a
heart condition. His facial structure also resembles that of people with
Marfan.
"He is Marfanoid," says Dr. Richard
Devereux, a clinician who treats patients with the illness at the Weill
Cornell Medical Center in New York. "He seems to have long fingers and
long arms. His head appears to be elongated and his face narrow ...
It's certainly conceivable that he has the Marfan syndrome and could be
evaluated for it."
Though people have long
speculated about bin Laden having Marfan, federal officials won't
answer questions about his health. "We don't discuss the medical
conditions of our enemy commanders," says Maj. Jay Steuck, a Defense
Department spokesman. And a Central Intelligence Agency spokesman says,
"We don't do unclassified medical summaries."
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Yossef
Bodansky, staff director of the House Task Force on Terrorism, told
the New York Post: "We are getting a lot of reports and rumors. By all
accounts, bin Laden is not a healthy man and is under a lot of stress."David K. Schenker, a research fellow at the
Washington Institute for Near East Policy, agrees that bin Laden's size
is atypical for his surroundings. "I lived in the Middle East, and I
never ran into anyone that tall," he says.
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Should
bin Laden have Marfan syndrome, the stress of cave-hopping and trying
to outrun Allied cruise missiles could prove deadly. "People with the
disease are told not to engage in heavy exercise," says Dr. Darwin
Prockop, director of the Center for Gene Therapy at Tulane University.
"If Osama bin Laden has Marfan, he is in danger of sudden rupture of
the aorta and sudden death."
The guy in the
newly-released videos looks healthier than Bin Laden actually looked 9
1/2 years ago, even though he sustained injury in Tora Bora, was on the
run for a while, and then was holed up inside a house for years.
In 2010, the FBI released an "age progressed" graphic interpretation of what Bin laden would look like today:
The Bin Laden looks better in the new video than in the age progressed image in 2010 ... and much better than he actually looked in 2001.
Am I saying that it's not Bin Laden?
Not necessarily, although the CIA has previously admitted that it made fake Bin Laden videos.
But if it's Bin Laden, it's from a long, long time ago.
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Noam Chomsky: My Reaction to Osama bin Laden’s Death
May 6, 2011
http://www.guernicamag.com/blog/2652/noam_chomsky_my_reaction_to_os/
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"We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic. Uncontroversially, his crimes vastly exceed bin Laden’s, and he is not a “suspect” but uncontroversially the “decider” who gave the orders to commit the “supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole” (quoting the Nuremberg Tribunal) for which Nazi criminals were hanged: the hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of refugees, destruction of much of the country, the bitter sectarian conflict that has now spread to the rest of the region."
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It is obvious to anyone with half a brain that the official narrative doesn't make sense - these video / pictures simply don't add up, just as per the article above. It is somewhat disappointing that the MSM don't even bother to question the official propaganda but in this day and age one shouldn't expect more. But what is really disturbing is that the administration would actually release such a blatantly bogus story. Either they are highly incompetent or they are really confident that the slaves are completely taken over.
The CIA agent formerly known as OBL? Fact is always stranger than fiction. Let's take what the government says about him at face value. If so then his contact and exposure to how the CIA operates kept him safe for 10 years.
Is it a stretch to think this guy may have been a CIA operative? Nope he fitted the bill to the T in the 70's with his Saudi Dollar connections and Mujahideen street cred made him perfect. I would say he was "handled" in the least and may have been on the payroll in the late 70's.
SO we know OBL was in a god foresaken country working with local fighters that the CIA had supported, I don't think that was in dispute. Did he turn sour as the media tells us? After getting left behind by the americans? I would argue it was a benefit to not have american around.
I could also make the case that OBL did what he was supposed to do, and that 9/11 coul dhave been an inside job and people who thought they were working for a terrorist group may on fact could have been "handled" by the CIA to fill the cold war void, not to mention the funding.
That is what happened, weather it was an accident or on purpose. What should have been a shrinking defense spending time was turned into a blank check for the cliche "military industrial complex". It just happend to come from a region where America's covert operations had been very successful in the past.
It all boils down to the average Joe, is he smart enough to know it's all total bullshit and a mass squander of fortune? Can we rise above our fear and question the real purpose of a federal government and a military complex that dwarfs the planet. Will he wake up to the back door deals, dictator supports and free dollars for countries that play along? All on poor Average Joe's dime, no wonder all we have left are Mc jobs, they sold the rest right out from under us.
I get the feeling it's going to be the troubling teens and power and control are not given, but taken by those who have the balls. I'm lookin at you Joe...
this reminds me of the cia hoax regarding howard hughes....hughes was kidnaped by spooks in the 1950s and was killed c. 1957....his body was dumped in the agean sea as i recall....in any event, the cia had more fakes and doubles of hughes around than wax figures at madame toussad's....
the hysterical last days of hughes in 1976 must have had daddy bush, e howard hunt, and a host of other spooks rolling the floor in stitches as they played that fraud out in front of the world....
same thing with bin laden....
In the TV viewing video - does anybody know if the electrical outlets on the power bar are correct for Pakistan?
Per the official story the four videos of blackbeard UBL by definition show a man who has disguised his appearance. They are supposed to be current or recent to the last few years, and UBL in other videos has had a gray beard for about a decade. The fifth video shows an old man where you can't see his face. A video of a man watching television. Why would anybody record a video of somebody watching television?
Again, one video of an old gray haired man where you cannot see his face and four videos supposedly of that same man with an admitted altered appearance. So they still have shown nothing in terms of a current, unaltered, full face picture of UBL living or dead. This is absolutely insane.
We have all been betrayed.
OBL has died or been killed many times over the years. Was he a threat to the USA? Nope. Why would the questionable, nobel peace prize, president of the free world order an assassination on a dead, non-threat NOW? hmmm Are we safer? Not if you listen to Barama, Billary or Nazipolitano. They say we need to "re-double" our efforts to fight terroists that Barama said there are none. This means expanded DHS/TSA groping sexual assaults on planes, trains, automobiles and malls near you.
The world never bought "WMD" story. and are not buying Obama Osama Drama in Abbottabad too. But American public bought it than and are buying it now. what is world's opinion, does not matter. The thinking is that a nine years old (USA ) has a loaded gun in his hand, every one has to comply. Wise man knows, this is a disaster for nine year old kid as well as for every one around him.
Looks to me like he was playing WII Bowling wearing a Snuggie..Very relaxing..Add in WII fit and Mario Cart and he was getting younger by the day..
OBL is dead, one way or another. Al Qaeda is mostly myth. That's not to say Islamic militants don't exist, they do. Most of them are not fans of what the Al Qaeda myth stands for & are pissed off at the US for occupying the region (as we would if the situation were reversed), bombing their people & rubber stamping anything Israel wants to do.
I don't really care about political victories. I care about outcomes. As long as this is an excuse to get out of MENA & get rid of the whole war on terror big government grab, I'm actually cool with it. If this is a means to escalate this failed & fruitless war (which is, what I fear, the direction), this is very bad and needs to be exposed & discredited. They are now building this "intelligence grab" to be bigger than a university library- this gives them virtually unlimited ability to make up anything to fit any agenda they want.
As for the videos, 4 of the 5 are regurgitations of 2007 videos that are obviously fake (at a time the CIA admitted to making videos with actors). the old guy watching the TV is right handed & looks to be about 70. i'd say this release not only proves nothing, it should lead people to be more suspicious.
Do you really think we will be getting our military out of the Muslim world anytime soon? It looks like the Libya situation is about to escalate. DHS will be growing and expanding to cover the subways, bus stations, and malls. They have to stick their hands down your underwear to make sure you're not hiding a nuke under your nutsack. Obama said that we are safer with OBL dead. Then Hillary and Napolitano say we need to be on high alert for retaliation. So which is it?
Hey, stop complaining. William Morris had a tough time getting this guy.
and a special shout-out to the 30,000 maryland employees who spend everyday eavesdropping on bad guys:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-nsa-bin-laden-20110507,0...
The Three Trillion Dollar Man (and still counting) with a 25 million dollar bounty on his head looks pretty good. Ha. Ha. His neighbors are going to be so pissed off because they missed out on the bounty. They were probably looking for a much older man.
Good enough video support of recent action for the brainwashed American sheep that the main steam media is targeting but not good enough for anyone who is a critical thinker.
We finally got him, so now we can close our permanent military bases and fire the 100,000 mercenaries (paid 6 times more than a U.S. soldier) and bring what’s left of our 150,000 US troops home. Support our dupes.
The most wanted man in the world and he lives in a busy surburb near the police station and military base and doesn't bother to shave his beard to disguise himself. His three bodyguards were only armed with supersoakers. He was hardcore to the end.
He didnt even have any mean German Shepards..
Seriously, this is the type of overwrought nonsense one has to put up with sometimes in order to visit this awesome web site. Uh, here's a crazy, out there, radical explanation: He looks better because he dyed his hair and beard, and because he has been living in a house and eating regularly, not scraping by in a cave, for the past six years. I know. Seems REALLY unlikely huh? Gotta be the CIA. Christ!
no...he's not "Christ" he's actually muslim. However, some think their government is Christ or at least can do things Christ could do or at least people claimed he did
Eating better and living in a house makes the effects of diabetes, kidney failure, and Hepatitis C go away? I think we've found the cure for three diseases!
Dying your hair doesn't make your skin look younger and your face fuller. Perhaps he got botox injections and Grecian formula for the date nights where he went out on the town to find a new wife. He must have run out of Grecian Formula in the other video when he's watching TV.
It must be confusing to your little pea-brain to have to think. That's why you're so upset. What you need to do is go find those WMDs in Iraq. George Bush said Saddam had them and we all know the government would never lie. We all know there wasn't a bubble in housing, because Osama Bin Bernanke said so in 2006.
Look out behind you! It's the CIA! Booga-Booga!
"Hey guys are you filming this? Are you filming?!"
His entourage of three were holding super soakers and screwing a video camera into a tripod. "Yeah Timmah, we are filming."
Osama sat down and threw his legs into the air. He had a lighter in his hand, and flipped it on before moving it to his ass.
[Thbpbpbpbpb] "Ah hahaha! Did you get it? Did you see my fart?"
"Yes we saw your fart Timmah."
One man turned to the other. "What's with the super soakers? When is he going to give us real guns?"
"I don't know, it's almost as if he knows he is a dead man."
Wasn't bin laden left handed?
he was! and right handed too!
and 6-9 to 8 feet tall!
he ate with his feet, mastered toe digitization
and could do magic tricks with his organ!
he defeated the soviets all by himself and
could read in the dark. he once swam 9 miles
on land dragging his ailing camel! killed
infidels with his smile and a cigar, played
games with children while balancing budgets
and defecating fresh mangoes.
he could drive a stick.
sang songs to insects that made them change colors.
all that and anything else you might need him to
do in the course of a day.
he could change his name in the middle of a
conversation - sentence.
now, all there is left,
a sandal, one lone sandal, floating somewhere in
the ocean of time.
he has become the anti-martyr, ex-money raiser, for
the war on terrible lies and horror. unfortunately,
even though many died and the movie made no sense
and has no coherent plot, no one gets there money back
cause it didn't exist in the first place.
even so, some have found a way to steal even the illusion
of money itself, leaving the many with a debt that no
man, honest or otherwise, could ever repay;
we move on now to the final scene and the credits.
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if you have it in you, or can find it .....
demand peace among the chaos and blind anger, radical
and coherent control and peace. the dog can wag his
own tail. or not. choice.
ps. no disrespect intended to anyone who either lived
or did not live, never existed, in a manner either described,
characterized, or not ,in any way whatsoever
by those who know nothing nor care to know anything
true regarding those events, people and peoples that they do "report",
ongoing. apologies where needed.
ppss. msm is a complete joke. (not funny) still, a joke.
"he could drive a stick" - thanks blindman, that was brilliant
thanks, now, here, my confession.
i stole the whole tone of it from this here.
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Tom Waits - Black Wings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKu-jVtVLME
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"He can turn himself into a stranger
Well they broke a lot of canes on his hide
he was born away in a cornfield
A fever beats in his head like a drum inside
Some say they fear him
Others admire him
Because he steals his promise
One look in his eye
Everyone denies
Ever having met him
Ever having met him."
at least you stole from someone brilliant
Yes according to the FBI website. I'm also left-handed and use my left hand for the remote. The only time I use my right hand is when my left hand is already being used for something else.
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/usama-bin-laden
It's interesting that the FBI now says bin laden was the “mastermind of the 9/11 attacks “,
When asked in 2006 why bin laden was not wanted in connection for 911 the FBI said ““The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Usama Bin Laden’s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.”
So why do they now say he was the mastermind?
alzheimers and corruption are hard to tell apart
Read what Steve Pieczenik has to say about it on Alex jones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj0pM5FoYbs
So he's dyed his beard, had a good makeup person prep him for the shoot (video, that is, not the one with the seals); plus he's probably had a better diet than that time in the caves of Afghanistan; healthy choices, don't ya' know. Plus, didn't you see that workout bike in the corner, this guy wanted to stay fit!! And, don't forget the multiple wives, jeepers, that'll keep a guy young, right? How about a little nip and tuck on his face, these muslim men think it's important to look young, goes with the grecian formula for the beard! Now if only Gadaffi would get a little nip and tuck, he would be easier on the eye!!! (Now there is a guy that looks like he has been rode hard and put away wet..)
That's Lucky Larry in drag. Oh yeah, Peter Bergen is an asset.
The America has celebrated the death of the number one terrorist Bin Laden. gas grills
He looks better because he uses Grecian Formula to make the gray go away! Grecian Formula is the hair grooming preparation preferred by plutocrat terrorists!
I always thought OBL preferred Just for Terrorist Men. He also found the fountain of youth in Pakistan and a cure for diabetes, hepatitis C, and got a kidney transplant.
May I remind you, he had "marfan syndrome" too.
Osama Obama American Imperialism Continues...
http://seenoevilspeaknoevilhearnoevil.blogspot.com/2011/05/osamaobamaame...
what, they want us to believe that President Obama never watches news footage of himself on his private tv?? oh puh-leaze.
The elitist arrogance that all the sheeple are stupid. Oh wait, they are.
'Obama hostage of Wall St. terrorists'
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/178824.html
I'm trying to figger out how
"Not necessarily, although the CIA has previously admitted that it made fake Bin Laden >>>videos<<<."
was really just one video...and it was never released according to the sourced link.
The link did however reveal some other fascinating, though as of yet under reported on, taboo comparisons of culture.
Thanks GW! ;-)
Watch the video of OBL in 2001 and the "new" videos of him. Tell me that's the same person 10 years later. OBL in 2011 looks 10 years younger than OBL in 2001. There's a 20 year time gap. Then we are fed a back-profile video of OBL watching TV where he looks like he's 70 years old and stocky.
You have to be blind to think that OBL. The other video of OBL watching TV from behind is even more funny.
This whole thing is a fucking joke. Obama and Co must be sitting in the situation room laughing their asses off
You think that touch of grey in the 2001 beard is a sign of age??? Nah, it is just a very good job of matching the beard to the cammo gear.
As for the touched up Osama ... it actually looks like a CGI rendering of him, almost Disney-like in quality.
Is he really dead? I think so. Should they have checked the body for freezer burn before dumping at sea? I think so.
Why? Because the Big O's birth certificate was signed by a doctor in Hawaii named U.K.L. Lee. Get it? Think about it ... Ukulele. If that is not enough, there are several other tells on the long-form certicate that became so obvious that there was little choice but to drag out the frozen corpse to distract the serfs from the obvious.
Obama birth certificate dissected...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s9StxsFllY&feature=related
Nice, I didn't know what to think about it, now I do, a total fake
This is so obviously fake, it's either completely on purpose or someone who was ordered to do this fake wanted to expose it and
gave them the original source file instead of the flatened image
When I was a banker they joked that I was a 25-year old trapped in 50-year old's body. I gave it up and they now joke that I am a 50-year old trapped a 25-year old's body. I wasn't 25 then and I am not 50 now, but all that conquering or destroying the world shit doesn't help one's physical appearance. Several years R&R in the ClubFed® - Islamabad Resort & Spa probably also helps.
We were told he's wa still leading Al Qaeda and that squalid hut is the command and control center. He had 6 computers with 2.3 terabytes of data, but no internet or phone line. How did he manage to download 10,000 hours of porn?
The FBI website says he requires a cane to walk. The reports of the raid said he was found upstairs. Why would a man with a cane be staying upstairs? The FBI website says he's left-handed. The man in the video watching TV is using his right hand to do everything.
Why can't we hear what he is saying?
"Of course by now the whole world is aware of the fact that I was not responsible for 9/11. I am hoping to have my day in court soon, to prove that the Jackals in Washington made ugly videos of me years ago, and the food they have provided the last 10 years has been healthy, but very boring for both me, and all of my wives."
Oil of Olaz? http://www.transnationale.org/upload/oilofolaz.gif