In the tape bin Laden also praises two hijackers – 1) Wail M. Alshehri and 2) Salem Alhazmi. But this is also a major discrepancy. Neither of these men, it turns out, were one of the purported hijackers. Here are reports that each of these men was still alive after 9/11:

1) Wail Alshehri, a name used by one of the suspected hijackers on American Airlines Flight 11. A man by the same name is a pilot whose father is a Saudi diplomat in Bombay. "I personally talked to both father and son today," [said Gaafar Allagany, head of the Saudi Embassy's information center. (source).

The real Salem Al-Hazmi, however, is alive and indignant in Saudi Arabia, and not one of the people who perished in the American Airlines flight that crashed on the Pentagon. He works at a government-owned petroleum and chemical plant in the city of Yanbu. He said yesterday he had not left Saudi Arabia for two years, but that his passport had been stolen by a pickpocket in Cairo three years ago. (source)

At best, their identities were stolen by the real hijackers. But why would bin Laden refer to these two by their stolen identities, rather than by their real names in this casual setting, unless he didn't even know their real names? Wouldn't he want to praise his real hand-picked martyrs to his comrades. And if he didn't even know their real names, then he didn't hand-pick them, did he?

The bottom line is that the visuals and some of the statements in the Confession Video don't jive with stock photos of bin Laden and known facts. One of the statements he makes about the Twin Towers also sounds out of place for someone with a degree in engineering. He refers to the towers as being made of iron, as opposed to steel.

The bin Laden we are seeing is very possibly either one of bin Laden's rumored body-doubles or an actor. This would explain the wrong features, healthy demeanor and right-handedness, as well as some questionable statements by bin Laden. If you have seen a preview of the coming mid-December release, The Kite Runner, for example, you know how well Hollywood can recreate the Taliban and a Taliban-run house. Why can't others with adequate resources recreate similar scenes with a bin Laden entourage?

But Maher Osseiran is still of the opinion that this really was bin Laden in the video, although he believes he was actually a patsy in a much larger Black Operation by US Intelligence and their allies, and that the time and location of the taping that the Pentagon gave was false:

.....Osama bin Laden is a patsy in the sense that his terror plans where most likely hijacked by intelligence operatives and who was aided and abetted at every turn during the execution of the attacks. He may actually believe that he pulled off the sum of 9/11 with his own resources, but he did not. The plan might have originated with bin Laden, but covert intelligence operatives orchestrated the outcome and aftermath.  (source)

Furthermore, Maher believes that the taping of bin Laden was actually Part 1 of a two part sting operation by US Intelligence, and that the taping of bin Laden (or his body-double?) was anything but an amateur al Qaeda/Taliban home video, but rather a covert operation with a concealed camera, to be followed up weeks later by bin Laden's actual capture or assassination. Hence the helicopter on November 2nd, which inconveniently crashed.

So in Part 5 of this series, we will take a closer look at Maher Osseiran's sting operation theories.

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