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It's more likely that it would be an attempt to make Bush look bad for not having somehow negotiated a way to make peace with Bin Laden - thereby putting Kerry in office. Then he hopes to be left alone so that he could recoup and kill more Americans.
Talk about far fetched ... As for the tape, sounds like a sad hoax. Anyone remember the guy faking a beheading?
Incidentally, there was a report by Dutch engineers before the attack that expressed concern about precisely this weakness in the structure of the WTC. I'm not actually expecting him to be aware of that report however, and I do believe that he didn't expect the towers to collapse.
I don't believe, however, that he was sad to see it happen. I firmly believe that Bin Laden prefers to have Bush in the Whitehouse. Bush creates controversy, splits the West, and exposes the U.S. army to attacks, making his life a lot easier. You think Western attacks in the Middle-East may impress him, but in the end it just helps his case - more and more splinter factions are subjecting themselves to his command.
-- now listening and watching the tape -----
He said, roughly, something like "I would like to say that security is a pillar of life and free people do not cast away their security and against the claims of Bush" (till this point I quote the translation literally), he should tell you why we didn't attack Sweden - we spill your security because we spill our security. In other words, leave us in peace and we'll leave you in peace.
'Your security is not in the hands of Bush or Kerry, your security is in your own hands.' I'm taking that to mean that if the American people would care more about what happens in the Middle-East, then both Bush and Kerry would listen and adjust.
He also says (I just happen to see it on CNBC Europe) that the 'idea for attacking the towers with the planes' comes from their frustration with the Israel invasion of Lebanon, and the structural damage that did to the country.
He also says something about Bush' continuing to sit in the school. Suppose he's been watching Michael Moore ... seriously undercuts the credibility of this tape.
'We want freedom for our nation also. Because you destabilise us, we destabilise you too'.
Keeps sounding like a hoax. But if true, someone did very well because it did get on Al Jazeera first.
I guess the fact that he makes sense (to me) is one reason why I don't find it very likely to be authentic. That hasn't happened before. The contrast with his silly rhetoric is too big.
No mention of that he didn't expect or was sorry, btw., don't know where that came from?
So far only CNBC Europe ran this here, all the other stations so far haven't mentioned it.
