I have to apologize for sloppy and careless work.  I accepted the work of the MSM as actually, well, investigitory.  The Bin Laden tape is NOT what all the media is making it out to be.  I don’t know whether the voice is Bin Laden’s but I recommend if you are at all interested in seeing something no one in the media is talking about, watch the video.  As Mr. Maschke says in his blog post:

• Osama Bin Laden's widely publicized video address to the American people has a peculiarity that casts serious doubt on its authenticity: the video freezes at about 1 minute and 58 seconds, and motion only resumes again at 12:30. The video then freezes again at 14:02 remains frozen until the end. All references to current events, such as the 62nd anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan, and Sarkozy and Brown being the leaders of France and the UK, respectively, occur when the video is frozen! The words spoken when the video is in motion contain no references to contemporary events and could have been (and likely were) made before the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The audio track does appear to be in the voice of a single speaker. What I suspect was done is that an older, unreleased video was dubbed over for this release, with the video frozen when the audio track departed from that of the original video.

I watched part of it, not all of it, I will try and watch all of it this week to check the claims made above.  Indeed, he is absolutely correct that the audio does sound like one single speaker in a very clear voice, I am not qualified to judge whether or not it is Bin Laden’s voice nor do I speak Arabic, but even the video that is streaming has a herky jerky motion to it. As Mr. Marschke says, the specific references to those things that are up to date do not appear to be during the streaming video period.

I have thought for a very long time that if I would have been advising Bin Laden, I would have recommend he make dozens if not hundreds of videos for subsequent release at moments such as this, anniversary’s of dates, after major events such as elections, I would have put him in different clothes in different settings, changed his look.  All these so called experts that discuss that Al Qaeda would not keep his death hidden don’t have a clue as to how someone like Bin Laden operates.  His desire is to continue the struggle, and he is the best recruiting tool they have.  His death, unless discovered, would never be publicized, in my humble opinion. There is a value to “keeping the bogey man alive.” The fact is that they could have had an audio double or doubles standing around for years. In fact, they probably could have made a subsititution years ago and we are checking the double against his own work.

I now think Bin Laden is dead.  Or he is not “presentable” that his condition has deteriorated to the point at which he would be a visual liability.  You can make adjustments with audio all day long, but until I see him walking, talking, with a sign saying “Free Michael Vick” or something as contemporary, I don’t think he’s alive and he sleeps with the goats, in the ground.