Thursday, September 13th, 2007
Osama Bin Laden is dead

That’s not a threat. He’s just dead. It’s obvious for a while that he’s disappeared from the public eye and this latest video seals it. Osama Bin Laden has died, now he’s either in heaven with a truckload (caravan load?) of virgins, in hell with an angry fire god, or slowly turning back to dust.

The latest video looked silly enough, and now the technical analysis is starting to come in. And I’m not talking bullshit government analysis, Western governments have as much interest in keeping alive the Bin Laden boogeyman as Al Qaeda. Here’s a quote from the article

More important though are the edits. At roughly a minute and a half into the video there is a splice; bin Laden shifts from looking at the camera to looking down in less than 1/25th of a second. At 13:13 there is a second, less obvious splice. In all, Krawetz says there are at least six splices in the video. Of these, there are only two live bin Laden segments, the rest of the video composed of still images. The first live section opens the video and ends at 1:56. The second section begins at 12:29 and continues until 14:01. The two live sections appear to be from different recordings “because the desk is closer to the camera in the second section.”

Then there are the audio edits. Krawetz says “the new audio has no accompanying ‘live’ video and consists of multiple audio recordings.” References to current events are made only during the still frame sections and after splices within the audio track.” And there are so many splices that I cannot help but wonder if someone spliced words and phrases together. I also cannot rule out a vocal imitator during the frozen-frame audio. The only way to prove that the audio is really bin Laden is to see him talking in the video,” Krawetz says.

Dead. He’s 100% dead.
Check the original blog link to lots of good video analysis

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