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Monday, 19 February 2007 |
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Top U.S. Bin Laden Expert: Confession Video 'Bogus'
'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 chortles about the success of the 9/11
attacks. (In earlier interviews, Bin Laden had denied responsibility
for 9/11, once even deploring the loss of civilian life 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. “It’s bogus,” says Professor Bruce Lawrence, head of Duke University’s Religious Studies program.'
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