- "Why such potentially damning evidence should have
been left in a house in Kandahar, conveniently discovered after a supposed
victory by the US-led alliance, giving for the first time the only real
evidence against Osama Bin Laden, is highly-suspicious."
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- The interviews took place in Afghanistan, the first
in October with the Qatar-based Arab TV station, Al-Jazeera, and in November,
filmed by an ìamateurî, found in a house in Jalalabad. The
first interview was never revealed, or shown, due to a secret agreement
between Richard Cheney and the Emir of Qatar. The second isÖstrange.
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- The first is an exclusive interview between a frightened
Al-Jazeera reporter and an exultant and defiant Osama Bin Laden which took
place in Afghanistan on 20th October, the contents of which were used by
British Prime Minister Tony Blair on 14th November, in his public accusation
that Osama Bin Laden was behind the September 11th attacks.
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- The video reached the British and US governments through
the work of their respective secret services, after they discovered that
a video of the interview had been made and distributed throughout the
Middle East, whose leaders are reported to be increasingly worried about
the growing influence of Al-Jazeera in the area. Contacts from the British
and US secret services obtained copies of the video, which has never been
shown.
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- Al-Jazeera decided not to broadcast the interview after
a private meeting took place in October between US Vice President Richard
(Dick) Cheney, and the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad Bin-Khalifah Al Thani.
The Qatar royal family finances Al-Jazeera and has close ties with the
USA.
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- In the interview, an aggressive and determined Osama
Bin Laden refuses to answer the reporterís questions and he himself
dictates the theme of the discourse. He manages again to portray his message
that the attacks against America were justified by this countryís
support for Israel, which stole lands from the Palestinians and continues
its campaign of terror today.
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- He declares that ìthe battle has been moved to
inside America and we must continue until we win this battle, or die for
the cause and meet our Creatorî. Linking these attacks with their
cause, he declared ìEvil terror is that which America and Israel
are practising against our people, and what we are practising is good
terror which will stop them from doing what they doî.
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- Osama Bin Laden and Islamist extremists have tried to
explain the cause behind the international terrorist movement with the
justification that while Israel refuses to adhere to UN Resolutions which
instruct this country to leave the Palestinian lands it occupied and to
cease the practice of building colonies on them, settled by Jews, the
stakes would be raised in their fight to claim back the lands which were
taken from them.
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- However, there is nothing concrete in this interview
which incriminates Osama Bin Laden, the references to the September 11th
attacks being too vague, and after the event.
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- In the second video, which mysteriously appears in a
private house in Jalalabad, filmed by an amateur and screened on Sky News
on Thursday, the evidence incriminating Osama Bin Laden in the terrorist
attacks on September 11th would be devastatingÖat face value.
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- However, Arabic-speaking Pravda.Ru contacts were present
watching this video clip and it can be stated that what was claimed and
seen are two different things. What was seen were video shots of Osama
Bin Laden (no doubt it was him, unless the video industry used its best
technicians to produce a professional-looking montage), speaking in the
distance with a group of fellows, talking about the September 11th events
in great detail.
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- Whether or not the voice was his can be debatable. The
Arabic-speaking contact of Pravda.Ru in Lisbon pointed out that anyone
could have dubbed on the voices because there are no close-ups of the
lips of the people while speaking. What he could hear was a lot of mumbling
and during the mumbling, the supposed translation comes up with some incriminating
phrases.
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- Why such potentially damning evidence should have been
left in a house in Kandahar, conveniently discovered after a supposed
victory by the US-led alliance, giving for the first time the only real
evidence against Osama Bin Laden, is highly suspicious.
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- Also suspicious is the fact that Osama Bin Laden mentioned
names of those held responsible for the hijackings. If Osama Bin Laden
has the means and intelligence to fight the Soviet Union during ten years,
to play cat and mouse with the USA for another ten years and to see the
Taleban walking home, armed after what was supposed to be one of the mightiest
military attacks in history, himself only he knows where, the second video
seems too good to be true.
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- http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/12/14/23594.html
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