{"id":409,"date":"2007-09-14T10:15:47","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T09:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2007\/09\/14\/doubts_over_obl_video"},"modified":"2025-10-10T10:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T09:39:09","slug":"doubts_over_obl_video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2007\/09\/14\/doubts_over_obl_video","title":{"rendered":"Doubts over OBL video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just managed to watch a clip of the recent Osama bin Laden video on YouTube, and saw for myself what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boomantribune.com:80\/story\/2007\/9\/9\/61032\/95401\">this blogger<\/a> points out: that the video is frozen shortly before the 2-minute point, and all references to current events occur after that, including for example the comment about President al-Maliki of Iraq.  The inference, some might say, is that the video is a forgery and was recorded before the invasion of Iraq, with another track dubbed over the frozen part.<\/p>\n<p>This version is incomplete and apparently taken from Arabic TV, but it demonstrates the point amply.  (HT: Haroon R.)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LhP_Z4sCqO8\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just managed to watch a clip of the recent Osama bin Laden video on YouTube, and saw for myself what this blogger points out: that the video is frozen shortly before the 2-minute&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrorism","category-war_in_iraq_afghanistan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-6B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41978,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/41978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}