[1317] in peace2
The Bin Laden Tape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rhett Creighton)
Fri Dec 14 07:24:01 2001
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 07:28:00 -0500 (EST)
From: Rhett Creighton <rhett@MIT.EDU>
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First, I haven't actually watched it. Since I don't know Arabic, I don't
think it would do me much good. But, what they say about the tape is:
Bin Laden is shown praising the attacks, and saying he was surprised it
killed so many.
Before this tape, news sources said that Bin Laden denied involvment in
the attacks, but approved of them.
Can someone explain to me:
How this tape says something that he didn't admit to outright?
How this is evidence of his involvemnt?
Why 83% (last time I checked) of a cnn.com poll thinks he should be
executed?
It's my opinion (not exclusively) that the media just needs to make
everything like a movie with a lone mastermind that america can kill to
put 83% of its citizens at ease. I think that we decided to single out
bin laden because his name is among the easiest to pronounce of the known
terrorists. I'm guessing that they've already captured some arab guy and
had plastic surgons make him look like bin laden. Now they're just
working out a really satisfying movie-like-execution for the scapegoat.
Hi ho!
Rhett
