Video Shows bin Laden Watching Himself on TV
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In this undated image taken from video provided by the U.S. Department of Defense, Osama bin Laden is shown in a new video released on Saturday, May 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Department of Defense)
LOLITA C. BALDOR and KIMBERLY DOZIER (AP) – Associated Press WASHINGTON Newly released videos show Osama bin Laden watching himself on television and rehearsing for terrorist videos, revealing that even from the walled confines of his Pakistani hideout, he remained a media maestro who was eager to craft his own image for the cameras.
The videos, released by U.S. intelligence officials Saturday, were offered as further proof that Navy SEALs killed the world’s most wanted terrorist this week. But they also served to show bin Laden as vain, someone obsessed with his portrayal by the world’s media.
One of the movies shows bin Laden, his unkempt beard streaked in gray, sitting on the floor, wrapped in a brown blanket and holding a remote control. He flipped back and forth between what appears to be live news coverage of himself. The old, small television was perched on top of a desk with a large tangle of electrical wires running to a nearby control box.
In another, he has apparently dyed and neatly trimmed his beard for the filming of a propaganda video. The video, which the U.S. released without sound, was titled ““Message to the American People” and was believed to be filed sometime last fall, a senior intelligence official said during a briefing for reporters, on condition that his name not be used.
The videos were seized from bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Officials said the clips shown to reporters were just part of the largest collection of senior terrorist materials ever collected. The evidence seized during the raid also includes phone numbers and documents that officials hope will help break the back of the organization behind the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Intelligence officials have known that bin Laden and al-Qaida monitored the news. But for years, when it was assumed that he was living in Pakistan’s rugged, mountainous tribal region, some believed he might not be able to get real-time news.
After the CIA discovered bin Laden’s suburban compound, they realized that a satellite dish provided a television feed to bin Laden’s compound. The video also reveals that bin Laden had a computer in his home, though officials say there were no Internet or phone lines running from the house.
Bin Laden and four others were killed in a daring pre-dawn raid Monday after U.S. helicopters lowered a team of SEALs behind the compound’s high walls. The terrorist leader’s death leaves al-Qaida with an uncertain future and represents America’s most successful counterterrorism mission.
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Comments (172)
jonesn4
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 2:36pmSNL skits coming soon! lol
Report Post »Code Name Geronimo
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 4:32pmSet the DVR!
Report Post »Workforit
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 11:40pmI thought this was just one long SNL skit…
Report Post »Whostolemypig
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 2:31pmWhere and when did they bury the bodies of the others killed in the raid? Are they swimming with the fishes? Was Islamic custom followed?
Report Post »LadyIzShy
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 2:13pmi dont need to see all this. the military and cia need it not me Ijust want them to keep us safe from enimies forgein and domestic.. look at the ones HERE trying to do the country harm
Report Post »lmy6545
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 2:10pmjob well done to all those involved in putting a end to bin laden. seems to me this is better proof then a photo that will enflame and be used as a martyr photo on terrorist websites.
Report Post »Ron_WA
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 2:09pmNarcissistic thug. Show me more of how pathetic this worm’s life had become. Remember, he was born a millionaire, one of the elite who became an idolized social warrior for his cause.
I love that he died an isolated, pathetic old man, living in squalor, entrapped in a near windowless concrete cage, surrounded by 18 foot walls topped with barbed wire.
Report Post »Ron_WA
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 2:00pmI love the vanity aspect of all these Arab despots & extremists.
Report Post »ZAP
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:56pmWhat a dump.Fannie Mae must hold the morgage
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:47pmI am so glad this guy is dead. Now, let’s do a bin Laden on the liberals. THAT will be news–up until the MSM pundits are finally toast, too.
Report Post »Chicago Ray
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:42pmAl Jazeera was the only channel he had on his menu….what a shocker. not.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 2:19pmIi thought he had MSNBC marked as one of his favorites, too.
Report Post »nomercy63
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:36pmI would have liked him sitting in Gitmo for years and then facing a military trial. We gave him a quick death which he wanted and we made a hero of him in the Muslim world. The hairy dude has been in Gitmo for years and is begging for death. We won the battle but lost the war.
Report Post »101
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 2:11pmYou don’t know that…we “our troops” may have embalmed him with pigs fat!
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:35pmYou would think that living in a million dollar compound, you would think he would have a bigger tv. Like a 52″ inch plasma screen.
Report Post »Chicago Ray
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:45pmI think it was worth a million in today’s Obama dollars which puts it at about Chicago Ghetto Cabrini Green level, just ten times bigger than the typical ‘Good Times’ apartment. ;)
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:56pmAfter seeing his “mansion” I was pleasantly surprised. It means I live on an estate! A palatial estate at that.
Report Post »Cryptoportico
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:29pm“Naturally the common people don’t want war… Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders… All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism.”
~ Herman Goering
Read more: http://dailyreckoning.com/in-death-osama-bin-laden-causes-another-war/
Report Post »nomercy63
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:41pmI really hate the fact that I have to agree with Herman Goering. We are Sheep whatever they tell us what ever they want to do to us they can and I am talking about our Government., we have surrender our freedom in the name of revenge and not justice. We won the battle but lost the war.
Report Post »Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:23pmI’ll bet there is a new American Citizen that used to herd goats in the hills of Pakistan that is all of a sudden 25 million dollars richer.
Report Post »SublimeOne
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 4:39pm@E.T.R.S.
Report Post »Too bad. Whoever collected waited so long. Their $25mil is now only worth about $15mil. Should have called before Obama became Pres…!
trooper
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:21pmPlease stop all the ODL BS, We don’t care Move on THEBLAZE, I know someone is reading this, so knock it off.
Report Post »Workforit
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 2:50amAgreed.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:19pmHe’s probabaly really loving the coverage of him now….if there are TVs in HELL! Rot, you bastard!
Report Post »Hawt'n'secksie
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:17pmI hope they find some videos where he is preparing food and offering cooking tips. I am looking for a good hummus or goat nut stew recipe. mmm.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 8:50pmOi mate, I’ve got a lovely pice of vid of you and the queen mum, want a copy?
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:12pmWow, looks like he has a lot in common with our Clown-In-Chief after all. Now, if only they said they had found a teleprompter in the compound, too…..
Report Post »SilentReader
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:05pmAll these types of people are self-indulgent and obsessed with their own glory.
Sort of like Obama.
It is fitting that one narcissist takes out another narcissist.
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:05pmI like the one where he looks like he just pooped his dress or burga or whatever you call that thing he was wearing. He has a great big smile on his face and doesn’t move his head but just his eyes. Priceless!!!!
Report Post »LOOKING_BOTH_WAYS
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 12:57pmDON”T show the flipping Video … he’s a ““Martyr”” to those idiots
Report Post »DeltaHawk
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 12:56pmOsama, Obama, Same narcissist personality. I can’t stand to look at either one of them anymore
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 12:56pmThis is a BFD for everyone else… :) Maybe they should go back to birther talk?
Report Post »Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 12:55pmJust goes to show that we KNEW he was there…. we KNEW what he was doing and all this is just another ploy by the government to distract the eager public with a sideshow act – while, with the other hand, screwing you with more taxes – rules and in general, more socialism.
Free Huey – (And Louie and Dewey too)
Report Post »orkydorky
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:40pmMy big question is, did the Pakistani government have a deal with BO. to hold him there until right before the election, but our military took him out without BO’s knowledge?………………………….
Report Post »http://www.thepostemail.com/2011/05/03/did-the-u-s-military-act-on-its-own-authority-to-kill-bin-laden/
TheGreyPiper
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 12:53pmWouldn’t be the first time a “revolutionary” leader lived in self-indulgent, self-obsessed luxury while those who adore him are eating beetles and living in tents.
Report Post »Hisemiester
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:50pmOsama or Obama?
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 6:43pmIt’s a US produced fake see it at
Report Post »http://www.infowars.com/hoax-white-house-claims-4-year-old-bin-laden-tapes-are-new-footage/
Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 12:51pmOk – shall I be the one to say it?
- Enough already.
What next – Osama’s favorite breakfast food? Film at 11:00
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 12:53pmDrama sells
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 12:55pmor Obama‘s tapes giving a lecture about women’s rights & sharia law .
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 12:56pm“Al-Qaeda’s Funniest Home Videos”?
Report Post »Revere1
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 12:57pmMaybe Bin Laden‘s ego is bigger than Obama’s. You know he likes to watch himself on TV. http://www.elephantwatcher.com/2011/05/after-bin-laden-should-republicans-be.html
Report Post »Cryptoportico
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:00pmAbject nonsense… and BTW, release the death pix (since you already “spiked the football”).
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:00pmbut not as big an ego as Trump
Report Post »ISeeDanger.com
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:01pmHe was really pizzed off when he got kicked off dancing with the stars.
Report Post »Said it was all “political”.
http://Emergency-Foods.org
Robert-CA
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:07pmROBERT-CA
Report Post »Posted on May 7, 2011 at 12:55pm
or Obama‘s tapes giving a lecture about women’s rights & sharia law .
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OK I made the mistake that everyone is doing . Obama change your name seriously .
I meant to say OSAMA‘s tapes giving a lecture about women’s rights & sharia law .
Sinista MACE
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:09pmThis is what you call saturation.
Beck is helping Obama saturate us with propaganda, carrying his water like the neocon shill that he is, knowing a great deal of the population SIMPLY DON’T BUY THE OFFICAL STORY BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO CREDIBILITY.
They could say the sky is blue and African Americans have melanin, and STILL no one would believe them.
THEY LIE TOO DAMN MUCH.
Report Post »redneck
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:19pmHow’s about the Satellite images of Cave Man playing tag in the garden.
Report Post »Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:20pmWatch the other hand people –
Watch what the government is about to pass while you are spending time watching this “distration” on TV.
(Even FOX)
W A T C H T H E O T H E R H A N D
Report Post »Finch88
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:23pmThe more I hear about OBL the more I dislike him.
http://politicalbowl.com – Political Videos
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:25pm“They video include outtakes of his propaganda films and, taken together, portray him as someone obsessed with his own image and how he is portrayed to the world.”
Report Post »Osama-Obama one in the same.
Red Meat
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:29pmAll we need now is the WH to release the Obama records.
Report Post »cadmstr01
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:30pmCNN trying to make OBL appear human.
Report Post »AmericanLass
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:39pmYou said it and I second it ! Enough, dead is dead.
Report Post »redneck
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:40pmOsama-Obama loves goat cheese
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:42pmToo bad there is not a video of his (OBL‘s0 expression as the SEAL’s come storming into the place where he was at; thankfully this one goat of a excuse for a cowardly man is now dead and gone.
Let’s get on with other things that matter indeed.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:43pm@BikerR
Drama indeed sells, and I can imagine just how many “Hunt for OBL” movies will be coming out soon if they are not already in the making.
Report Post »Restored One
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:50pmEvery day they release something to keep us engaged and distracted from what else is going on. Watch the other hand! Debt ceiling talks etc.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:52pmSo comforting to know Osama-Obama left arm had healed and he was not in pain before he went to HELL!
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:54pmROTFLMFAO!!!
That ain’t no damn Bin Laden.
Jesus Christ, these people are stupid.
Can we possibly see his FACE? Not the…um…side profile of a stunt double…
Report Post »101
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:59pmHow’s the debt ceiling and budget coming along % BREAKING NEWS on Osama bin Laden & again 12:PM,1:00,2:00,3:00,4:00,5:00,6:00,7:00,8:00,9:00,10:00,11:00,12:AM,1:00,2:00,3:00,4:00,5:00,and tune in again tomorrow for more BREAKING NEWS about Osama bin Laden and the next day and the next and the next BREAKING NEWS continual year round 24/7 news about Osama bin Laden.
Maybe if we tune out, quit commenting/watching they end the blackout on the real issues plaguing our Country !
Report Post »nysparkie
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 2:01pmA monkey will fall in love with itself if you put a mirror in its cage….hmmmm.
Report Post »Maybe the only luv Bin Ladin ever had, lookin at himself.
Ron_WA
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 2:06pmNo, no show me more of how pathetic this worm’s life had become. Remember, he was born a millionaire, one of the elite who became an idolized social warrior for his cause. I love that he died an isolated, pathetic old man, living in squalor, entrapped in a near windowless concrete cage, surrounded by 18 foot walls topped with barbed wire.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 2:15pmElRushbo says it best, “All of this produced by techniques and policies steadfastly opposed by this current president. The president gives a — some would say illegal — kill order. We are proscribed because of an executive order from President Ford to assassinate foreign leaders, but nevertheless this president gives a kill order for a target in a private residence in a country, a friendly country invaded by us without their knowledge where there are women and children present, by the way. In the course of this attack, upwards of 22 foreign nationals are either killed or captured, including the targeted unarmed foreign leader.
Then, it is reported that the president ordered the target’s body respectfully tossed into the ocean, all of which is done without any United Nations resolution or authorization of any kind. And not only does our president not apologize for any of these actions, he brags about what he did and claims that it was all his idea from the get-go, and our media celebrates him as courageous.”
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 2:16pmhave to say I am enjoying catching up on movies etc by NOT watching the news..and just skimming the articles like this one.. There are how many words all saying NOTHING of IMPORTANCE..
Report Post »LAM2
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 2:24pmKeep us focused on all this Osama drama, and maybe we won’t notice fuel prices, unemployment, food inflation, Libya, etc.
Report Post »redneck
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 2:31pmTime to Burn some Qurans
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 2:43pmthe only difference between obama and osama…is the bs…oh look I made a funny! even though osama is usama…why do these articles get that wrong…personally I don’t care what you call him…I call him the dead dude.
Report Post »Professional Infidel
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 3:16pmlets say i was Ubl, I would never have had my picture taken!! Not the wise old sage he thought.
Report Post »Itchee Dryback
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 4:00pmSinista MACE
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 1:09pm
They could say the sky is blue and African Americans have melanin, and STILL no one would believe them.
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Something seems to be working on you. Whatever it is, it’s got you very confused….and kinda paranoid imo.
Report Post »EP46
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 4:01pmGlad they told us who it was….no ‘face recognition there”.
Report Post »ramburner
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 4:22pmI agree. A total waste of time, and these reporters knew that as well.
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Report Post »Tulsatime
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 4:23pmAlmost as boring as 2 1/2 men.
Report Post »Code Name Geronimo
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 4:29pmGood one,
Lesbian Packing Hollow Points!
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 5:08pmItchee Dryback
There ain’t nothing “working” on me, brother.
You heard what I said.
THEY LIE TOO DAMN MUCH.
That’s all.
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 5:13pmGood riddens.
Report Post »CultureWarriors
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 5:55pmIt’s scary to think that someone as unkept and inept as OBL kept the CIA & the US military at bay for so long. What‘s even more astounding is that the president getting credit for OBL’s demise is the most inept president ever. I guess it’s really true Bill Clinton did decimate the CIA and made us extremely vulnerable.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 6:41pmI’ve been saying that since day 2.
Report Post »http://www.infowars.com/hoax-white-house-claims-4-year-old-bin-laden-tapes-are-new-footage/
This footage is NOT new, it‘s four years old and it’s faked by our government, read for yourself.
Watch the other hand, always!
Live_Free_orDie
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 7:29pmNew drink hits NYC…the Bin Laden…two shots and a splash of salt water.
Report Post »Welcome Black Carter
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 7:51pmA video of yourself watching yourself . I’m sure Usama had it filed under “family home video”
I wonder how many Ubama has…
Report Post »SpeckChaser
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 8:52pm***********ATTENTION**************
****************JZS******************
Bigotry… Racism… Commonsense … Call it what you will but I will not willingly subject my wife/kids to dangerous situations. Doesn’t matter if it’s white, black, brown, purple, blue, or green. If that offends you…GET OFFENDED!!!!!!
The absence of your answer is what stood out to me. Did I guess right by assuming your superior moral compass and “non-bigoted” views allowed your wife/kids to be put on the plane with the terrorist resembling passengers? Guess you have not heard the one about cutting off your nose to spite your face.
I live in a predominantly white city and stay aware of my surroundings 100% of the time. The ironic thing is I find myself looking towards white people as possible threats. Because where I live, chance are if something bad happens it’s going to be at the hands of a white person, not some black, brown, or Arab boogie man as you apparently believe. Is a white guy who profiles other whites another example of my bigotry? Danger is not limited to one color. The sooner you realize this, the better off you will be.
The only time you would let this argument slide is if it walks like conservative, talks like a conservative…It’s a bigot, racist, homophobe, misogynist.
Report Post »BonnieBlueFlag
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 9:35pmWell that was pure fiction.
1. That doesn’t look anything like OBL
2. They claim in the video that OBL was very media savvy… How media savvy is it to allow someone to videotape you looking like a stoner watching his first self-made cable access show?
3. Who is videotaping?
4. If he wants to be taped, why not look at the camera so we can see your face?
5. The video below with the “dyed” beard looks nothing like the above video or the real OBL or the “fat nosed” OBL from yet a different faked video
Obama Administration= Propaganda Fail
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on May 7, 2011 at 11:53pmBetter video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkzcpObF7QI
Photos around 2:20 or so.
Report Post »Enuff Zenuff
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 12:20amLooks to me like Osama’s just taking teleprompter lessons from Obama… or maybe did it actually occur the other way round?
Report Post »Paradigmm
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 2:23amHow many times is this guy going to die?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,41576,00.html
Report Post »tbear44
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 4:24amWhat a crock of dogpoop.
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 5:58amI guess for the next 100 years we will see movies of this creep. When will they will dig up the one with Osama and his 4 wives in bed at the same time.
Report Post »Rashomon
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 8:38amgee, he preens almost as much as obama.
Report Post »thx1138v2
Posted on May 8, 2011 at 9:22pmI’m with you on that. There’s really only one thing I want to know at this point. It was claimed for years that bin Laden had kidney disease and required dialysis frequently. If that was true then there is no way he was unknown in Pakistan for 5 to 8 years.
I have not, however, seen anything on that. If no one checked the organs or for the equipment in the house then the evidence was buried at sea. How convenient.
Report Post »the_zazzy
Posted on May 9, 2011 at 10:55amI bet he‘s watching America’s Funniest Videos followed by Desperate Housewives!!!
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