Right now, expect it. There's lots of reasons and none of them have anything to do with OBL his self. There's a reason OBL went free at Tora Bora. OBL is more valuable to the Bushco alive and running around than he is captured and in prison. Ever wonder why no one will answer a direct question about OBL? Every time Bush/Cheney/Rice/Rumsfeld/et al get asked a direct question about OBL, they redirect.
Remember the OBL tape that came out just before the 2004 elections? That tape was presented as the reason Bush won. I would propose that, if anything, the tape made the election close enough to steal.
Bushco is desperate right now. And Karl Rove still has a whole lot of tricks left up his sleeve, regardless of how unethical and immoral those tricks may be, they will use them. I believe to this very day that Buschco paid off OBL at some point and in return OBL made the November 2004 tape. Maybe it was in return for letting him go at Tora Bora. We've discussed here many times how OBL needs Bush to keep the Middle East in a state of chaos. Bushco needs OBL for people to be afraid of. And we see right now, even before Labor Day how Bushco is ratcheting up the fear factor.
From OBL's November 1, 2004 tape:
"Praise be to Allah who created the creation for his worship and commanded them to be just and permitted the wronged one to retaliate against the oppressor in kind. To proceed:
Peace be upon he who follows the guidance: People of America this talk of mine is for you and concerns the ideal way to prevent another Manhattan, and deals with the war and its causes and results.
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So we are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah.
That being said, those who say that al-Qaida has won against the administration in the White House or that the administration has lost in this war have not been precise, because when one scrutinises the results, one cannot say that al-Qaida is the sole factor in achieving those spectacular gains.
Rather, the policy of the White House that demands the opening of war fronts to keep busy their various corporations - whether they be working in the field of arms or oil or reconstruction - has helped al-Qaida to achieve these enormous results.
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So the war went ahead, the death toll rose, the American economy bled, and Bush became embroiled in the swamps of Iraq that threaten his future. He fits the saying "like the naughty she-goat who used her hoof to dig up a knife from under the earth".
So I say to you, over 15,000 of our people have been killed and tens of thousands injured, while more than a thousand of you have been killed and more than 10,000 injured. And Bush's hands are stained with the blood of all those killed from both sides, all for the sake of oil and keeping their private companies in business.
Be aware that it is the nation who punishes the weak man when he causes the killing of one of its citizens for money, while letting the powerful one get off, when he causes the killing of more than 1000 of its sons, also for money."
While what much of OBL said was, in fact, true, and is still true today, it only served to make Bush the hero as OBL echoed many of our talking points which the RW had demonized. The result was a literal windfall for Bushco.
So let's not think that Karl Rove and Bushco are above putting OBL up to this again. Bank on it, there WILL be another OBL tape some time the week before the election in November. It will be construed by the RW to validate the "fact" that Democrats support Al-Queda if only because OBL will echo the very same talking points we use.
And, you say this is tinfoil hat stuff? That's exactly what they want you to think. They want us to think that something so big, so outrageous, and so unethical and immoral would never happen. The fact is, they have no rules. They stole two United States presidential elections. By definition, they are capable of literally anything.
Full transcript of OBL's November 2004 tape