Osama Bin Fakin'?

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Al Jazeera (Correction: it's Al Jazeera publishing... not related to the news network), in a lengthy editorial questioning the Osama tapes' authenticity, writes: "There is no reason whatsoever to believe that these audiotapes are authentic. While they are always followed by reports of scientific voice analyses, these studies have been invariably done by CIA experts. In fact, only [on] one occasion was an independent analysis done. And while American officials were certain of the tape’s authenticity, Swedish scientists were convinced that it was fake."

The editorial goes on to question the change in content and message, including the fact that the only Al Qaeda admission of culpability in 9/11 was on one of these audio tapes.

Conspiracy BONUS: Nobody's actually seen the results of one of these CIA voice analyses.

Conspiracy BONUS II:
"'Over more than the past year, ZAWAHIRI has been the one issuing tapes, and BIN LADEN has been very careful not to appear at all, and now all of a sudden he's deviated from that,' said Kenneth Katzman, Terrorism Analyst At Congressional Research Service, In-House Think Tank Of The U.S. Congress."
Conspiracy BONUS III: See comments...

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