The second anchors for the timeline analysis are statements by Tony Blair, that of Nov. 14 and the following two:
On Oct 4, 2001 , in a speech, he states that a Government document is to be released and I quote the document: "There is evidence of a very specific nature relating to the guilt of Bin Laden and his associates that is too sensitive to release." The operative words are "very specific".
On Sept. 30, 2001 , in a BBC interview, Tony Blair states that he has evidence from intelligence services of Bin Laden's guilt and that the evidence was "powerful and incontrovertible". I had to look up incontrovertible in the dictionary, it means; not open to question or dispute; indisputable, as in, absolute and incontrovertible truth. This was only 4 days prior to Oct. 4, is he talking about the same "very specific" evidence. Very likely as it takes governments about 4 days to vet and publish. (see Part 3 about the mystery tape)
When we combine all three statements, we can deduce that the incontrovertible evidence was available as early as Sept. 30, that it was acquired by intelligence, and that it is a "video" since the only incontrovertible evidence, even though hearsay, Blair put forth was his quote of Nov. 14. (source)
This sounds like a rather logical deduction, so if Maher is right, that the taping was around Sept 30, then there is no way bin Laden's cameraman could have taped over the Nov 2 helicopter crash. It hadn't happened yet, and the tape released by the Pentagon would definitely have to have been edited.
There is of course, another explanation: that the whole taping of bin Laden was a staged production on Nov 9, with a script and actors, and that the script failed to take into account all the relevant events surrounding that date. And for whatever reason, they shot out of sequence. But actors? Isn't that far-fetched?
Well, there are other inconsistencies about the tape and its' circumstances. Whenever this tape was shot, bin Laden would be extremely security conscious. After all, he was just about the most wanted man on earth. Why would he then even allow anybody to tape him so randomly, without having utter control over the tape? Furthermore, bin Laden had been sending the public messages that he had had nothing to do with 9/11, and, assuming that that is really him in the video, then this would prove he is lying. So why on earth would he risk compromising his public story by allowing himself to be taped, which, apparently, is exactly what happened?
But the larger question is, is that even bin Laden? I already pointed out discrepancies between the bin Laden in the tape and a stock photo of bin Laden at the end of Part 3 in my series. Look again at the same photos at the beginning of this article. Even through all the distortions of the Confession Tape, which is of very poor audio and video quality, one can discern that the faces do not match very well at all. The website www.whatreallyhappened.com goes into great detail comparing faces and other characteristics between the Confession Tape and other videos and finds, as I did, a lousy match. (see site here).
The Confession Tape bin Laden looks heavier, with squatter, shorter nose and fatter face. As I said in Part 3, this bin Laden also looks much healthier, even jovial, than the tapes released by Aljazeera just before or right after this tape. In fact, in his December-released tape he looks haggard, sickly, and can't move his left arm. He may even be near death. It was also reported earlier in the year that he was using a cane, either because of a possible bad back or his well-known-to-be failing kidneys. But the bin Laden in the Confession Tape walks in casually and gracefully, with no hint of a limp or organ pains, and then sits comfortably and amiably as if he has no medical problems for a half hour or so. Strange, very strange for someone supposedly on regular kidney dialysis.
But if the sequence was actually shot in late September, wouldn't bin Laden have been in better shape? Likely not, because we know from this CBS News report (assuming it is accurate) that bin Laden was in less then glorious health then too:
CBS News has been told that the night before the September 11 terrorist attack, Osama bin Laden was in Pakistan. He was getting medical treatment with the support of the very military that days later pledged its backing for the U.S. war on terror in Afghanistan.
Pakistan intelligence sources tell CBS News that bin Laden was spirited into this military hospital in Rawalpindi for kidney dialysis treatment. On that night, says this medical worker who wanted her identity protected, they moved out all the regular staff in the urology department and sent in a secret team to replace them. She says it was treatment for a very special person. The special team was obviously up to no good.
"The military had him surrounded," says this hospital employee who also wanted his identity masked, "and I saw the mysterious patient helped out of a car. Since that time," he says, "I have seen many pictures of the man. He is the man we know as Osama bin Laden. I also heard two army officers talking to each other. They were saying that Osama bin Laden had to be watched carefully and looked after." Those who know bin Laden say he suffers from numerous ailments, back and stomach problems. Ahmed Rashid, who has written extensively on the Taliban, says the military was often there to help before 9/11. (source)
So again, is the Confession Tape bin Laden a phony ? But wait, it gets worse. This is a quote from the Confession Tape transcript:
UBL: We were at (...inaudible...) when the event took place. We had notification since the previous Thursday that the event would take place that day. We had finished our work that day and had the radio on. It was 5:30 p.m. our time. I was sitting with Dr. Ahmad Abu-al-((Khair)). Immediately, we heard the news that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. We turned the radio station to the news from Washington. The news continued and no mention of the attack until the end. At the end of the newscast, they reported that a plane just hit the World Trade Center. (source)
But when bin Laden was reported to be in a Dubai hospital in July of 2001 for kidney dialysis by the French paper Le Figaro, that paper reported he was hospitalized there for some ten days (source).
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