The Al Qaeda media arm has promised a new Bin Laden video. A pre-release still from this video shows Osama sporting a young man's black beard, even though his beard was streaked with light gray in the videos seen throughout the past five years.Some take this discrepancy as evidence of the faker's art. Personally, I take seriously the oft-heard accusation that some previous "Al Qaeda" videos had a Hollywoodish origin. But in the present instance, why would any hoaxer allow such an obvious visual contradiction to mar the illusion? I mean, how hard would it be to lighten the facial hairs on an Osama look-alike?
On the other hand, I find it hard to believe that a jihadist mastermind would be so vain as to dye his hair.
I don't have an explanation for this bizarre turn of events. Do you?
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I feel like I'm walking a little too close to trannie territory but his facial features do seem wider than in past releases. It's been said that he suffers from diabetes. I don't know if that would account for anything. Or, speaking as a camera man, it could have something to do with distortion due to the transfer from capture to display (Pal Camera (16:9 to NTSC 3:4 squeeze). Dunno. The beard? You got me.
Any background on SITE ("the source")?
1. I'm reminded of Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate telling James Gregory: "Is anyone asking 'ARE there Communists in the State Department?' No. They're asking 'HOW MANY Communists are there in the State Department?'" 2. Marshall McLuhan said the content of any medium is like the raw meat the burglar brings along for the watchdog while he steals into your mind. 3. "In the future, every fake thing will be genuine for 15 minutes".
The 'chubby' OBL look-alike created considerable derision once it was really looked at. Perhaps they decided to get some older footage of the real OBL and manipulate it to make an apparently current video message?
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wag the dog.
Chemo?
Miss P.
My guess: Either his hair fell out or he shaved to change his appearance. The beard is a fake.
Osama has been dead for years. This is pure psyop. And bad psyop at that.
From the link on Al-Jazeera:
"Bin Laden's beard appears to have been dyed, a popular practice among Arab leaders, Rita Katz, director of the SITE Institute, a Washington-based group that monitors "terrorist" websites, said."
Is there a fashion magazine for Arab leaders where we could verify if it's in or out for Arab leaders in 2007 to dye their beard ?
atualy it is against islam to dye your beard with anything but henna. Henna will turn your hair red. That is why you will see pitures of old muslim men with red beards.
He's dead! That guy is a fake!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,41576,00.html
who cares? or better yet..why care about Ben laden he is just another of the many shills that are crfeated to mesmerize the audiences. Every person that the cameras focus on is puppet casting shadows. why are people so enamored by shadows and puppets? Do we never ever evolve? Plato about 600 BC or so, describd the human condition inside the cave of illusions. Will it never ever cease? Everybody that takes seriously this game, this charade, deserves the penalty. You all love the chains you are rattling you are so used to them. Do not expect freedom until you are willing to leave that cave forever, one by one, and crawl outside and see the sun. It Rocks!
This Osama video is an obvious fraud --- even more obvious than the previous ones. The fraudsters are delighting in the number of suckers who they can nevertheless fool into accepting this as real. Alas, this Osama is only as "real" as a Karl Rove can imagine him to be.
If you watch the two videos play side by side you cannot help but notice that everything about the dark Osama is different. His mouth moves differently, his cheeks are different, the shape of his eye brows is different. The width of his face at the ears, the shape of his brow, his lips don't even make the same motions......
Either the first Osama tapes are fakes, or this one is.......
OBL is "Emmanuel Goldstein," the mythical all-purpose boogey man used by Big Brother in Orwell's '1984.'
To this day, he remains uncharged in the 9/11 deaths, because, according to the FBI, they have no evidence linking him to that crime. (And, indeed, oddly for any terrorist, let alone for jihadist OBL, several statements from him denying his involvement.)
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I agree!
In my culture it's called "lulu", Mancia calls it "kokuie" or however it is spelled in Spanish.
I wonder what you would call Noam Chomsky! The man praised by both Osama Bin-Laden and Hugo Chavez in a span of a year!
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