*Top U.S. Bin Laden Expert: Confession Video "Bogus"* by Kevin Barrett, http://mujca.com
2/17/06 Was Osama Bin Laden responsible for 9/11? The Bush Administration says yes, citing a grainy, badly-edited videotape that surfaced in December, 2001. In that tape, a fat guy who vaguely resembles Bin Laden <http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/osamatape.html>chortles about the success of the 9/11 attacks. (In earlier interviews, Bin Laden had denied responsibility for 9/11<http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/16/inv.binladen.denial/>, once even deploring the loss of civilian life<http://www.public-action.com/911/oblintrv.html>in the attacks and calling them un-Islamic.) Is the famous "confession video" genuine? Despite Bush's insistence that the tape is authentic, America's top academic Bin Laden expert has finally gone on the record, joining numerous other experts<http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=SCH20060601&articleId=2555>. "It's bogus," says Professor Bruce Lawrence, head of Duke University's Religious Studies program. Lawrence, author of *Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama Bin Laden <http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18750>*, offered his historic debunking of the administration's lie in an interview with Kevin Barrett ("Dynamic Duo <http://gcnlive.com/pgmsDyduo.htm>," gcnlive.com, 2/16/2007, first hour). The interview marked Lawrence's first major public statement since he made headlines last year<http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2006/200106faketape.htm>by suggesting that recent Osama tapes are hoaxes and that the real Osama Bin Laden may be dead. [...] http://mujca.com/hoax.htm -- -- G. Waleed Kavalec ------------------------- "If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." - James Madison
