Say Anything Blog

Here's some news about the recently released bin Laden tape that isn't getting a lot of attention.

October 31, 2004 -- Osama bin Laden doesn't seem nearly so cocky in the unedited version of a videotape aired on al-Jazeera, complaining that the manhunt against him has hampered al Qaeda.

Osama bin Laden's newest tape may have thrust him to the forefront of the presidential election, but what was not seen was the cave-dwelling terror lord talking about the setbacks al Qaeda has faced in recent months.

Officials said that in the 18-minute long tape -- of which only six minutes were aired on the al-Jazeera Arab television network in the Middle East on Friday -- bin Laden bemoans the recent democratic elections in Afghanistan and the lack of violence involved with it.

On the tape, bin Laden also says his terror organization has been hurt by the U.S. military's unrelenting manhunt for him and his cohorts on the Afghan-Pakistani border.

Huh. I wonder why this hasn't been getting more attention? It couldn't possibly be that the liberal media doesn't want it getting out that the Bush administration has done much better against al Qaeda than what has been reported, could it?

And the answer is: "Of course it is."

The impact of Osama bin Laden complaining about how difficult it is to be a terrorist these days would have been enormous for Bush's campaign. So the powers-that-be in the media decided to stifle that segment of the video and concentrate on the Michael Moore inspired portions.