A few quick links worth your time.
- He's baaack. "Bin Laden Threatens Attacks, Offers Truce." Not exactly. What he has said is "You surrender and leave, and we won't fight you in the places you left anymore." Meanwhile, he'll be training new terrorists and planning future attacks. Austin Bay agrees. I suspect the Bush administration will pass on the offer. Perhaps we should extend a counter-offer: have all your boys surrender, and we won't kill them all.
In addition, however, the AP jumps to the conclusion that the tape means Bin Laden is alive. Actually, it only means he was alive when the tape was made. Initially that was said to be December, but that estimate was retracted by Al Jazeera. In reading this AP report there is no quote from Bin Laden that identifies a time frame, other than some time after the London train bombings, in July. The full tape, at The Political Teen, does not add any additional time markers.
More: Rick Moran, who finds similarities between the US anti-war voices and OBL. Oh, and the Carnival of the Clueless is up over at the Nuthouse. - I was a student at Boston University about 25 years ago, and the university had recently established a "College of Basic Studies." The initials CBS were prophetic, apparently. This was a place for students who were entering college needing some ... remedial work. I see there are a lot more students with this need.
- Here's a must-read: Dean Barnett discusses Al Gore and his NSA speech.
"Actually, Gore’s awful style has long been his secret strength. Because of his awkwardness and preternaturally stiff manner, Gore has often managed to get people to think he’s a bright substantive guy wrapped in an unappealing package. But the principal problem with Gore has always been substance.
Or lack thereof. Gore has always been, at best, a second rate mind. Only the widely held but mistaken notion that hopeless nerds are inherently intelligent has obscured this fact." - Journalism's crazy old aunt, Helen Thomas, is at it again. Video at Michelle Malkin's, hat tip: Political Teen.
- So, maybe Al Zawahiri escaped death, but Al Masri didn't.
1/19/06 2330: Rob B. at File It Under has the Texas Hold 'Em We're-calling-your-bluff-Big-Man analysis of the Osama tape.
1/20/06 0600: Rob Port, writing at Wizbang, notes that once again someone is "questioning the timing" of the OBL tape. Oh, brother. For the record, the timing that you're questioning is not, of itself, evidence. It's what has made your paranoid little brain feverish with conspiracy, but it's not evidence. If you've got something more, something that actually justifies that fever, let us know, Mr. Cafferty. Otherwise, clam up.
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