Tuesday, February 11, 2003

How long until this is proven false just like all the others?


According to What Really Happened, not very long. (Read the last line.) Or...yeah. Not very long.


As I've been doing for the last few weeks, I'm going to take a wait-and-see attitude toward this before I get shrill. It will be proven wrong or right soon enough. I hope it's not another grad student's work.


UPDATE:

Story has changed. Stay tuned.

UPDATE part II:

I'm still skeptical. It bascially looks like what he's been saying all along: that he wants Muslims to do awful things to non-Muslims.

UPDATE part III:

I'm still not going gung-ho for this war, and if terror happens as a result of this war, I withdraw all support. Wait...er...I'm not going gung-ho for it. My support is still tepid. I meant if it means terror attacks us at home

Update number 3 made no sense when I went back to reread it, so I updated the update.

UPDATE part IV:

Al-Jazeera still denying. I'm still skeptical.

UPDATE part V:

I want to read a book about propaganda.

UPDATE part VI
statement at MSNBC



“With all the might of the enemy, they were unable to defeat us and take over that position. ... We hope that our brothers in Iraq will do the same as we did,” said the voice.
The speaker said the United States was waging a psychological war against Iraq and urged Muslims to stage suicide attacks on Americans.
At the same time, the message also called on Iraqis to rise up and oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who is a secular leader. "



so it really isn't a partnership, and I'm not getting shrill.

UPDATE part VII:

MSNBC has removed the sentence. And they put that damned terror alert thing back up. They've lost points.

UPDATE part VIII

The commentators at Eschaton note that MSNBC continues the edit the story to make it appear that Bin Laden is pro-Saddam...despite the above quote which was already removed.

What media whores. That's a case of blatent media fellatio. Live. Damn them to hell.

UPDATE part IX

Antiwar is all up on this.

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