Senators, Spy Chief Focus On Bin Laden's New Beard

AFP:

Questions over the elusive Saudi extremist's beard cropped up at a Congressional hearing Monday featuring top US security experts, including Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell.

"First, is this his beard?" Republican Senator Norm Coleman asked the spy chief. "Do we expect that -- is it a signal?"

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Comments

[WilliamWallace]

He's now a Grecian Formula man........are they going to analyze the tint of his beard hairs, or are they finally going to go actually try to catch him?

What a bunch of pansies.

[NothingButTheTruth]

I hope that this farce will finally force those of you who have been lashing out at the true patriots who question the governments version of 911, to issue your apologies to the tin foil hat crowd, that have been trying to save America from martial law and tyranny! When will Huff Post start to question 911?

[CARTERJ]

Looks like Osama is trying to pull a Michael Jackson on us.

[MissingAmerica]

Is this for real? Perhaps we should start having men's stylists handling this investigation. After all, if anyone knows beards, they do - and haircuts, too! Good be something in that. Also, the gold in his clothing and the hat. Is that style from 2001, or is it the latest trend? SHEEESH!!!!!!

[Chrisa]

I'm not accusing anyone of a conspiracy or anything (far from), but why would Osama Bin Laden criticize Democrats, and the War in Iraq? All of the things he said smell like sh*t. It was almost like a bad Liberal parody. I don't think the government did this, but don't be surprised when this comes out as being 100% fake.

[Bystander]

Clearly, bin Laden sides with the left's efforts to surrender Iraq. No surprise and hardly implausible. Your lame conspiracy theory is par for the course.

[NothingButTheTruth]

I don't think the government did this! Just who do you think did do this? The Tooth Fairy?

[owiseone]

OK If Congress is going to scrutinize this video, let it be a real FBI search for who made it, who delivered it, etc. and trace it to the source. Prosecute. Because no doubt, it is part of the PNAC plot to scare the pants of US citizens so there'll be more military recruits to help them bomb Iran.

Expose them for what they are, then take the whole bunch to Nurenburg or just turn them loose to the families of our own dead and wounded military--this would be their own justice considering how Bush/Cheney have distorted our DOJ.

[JimLarkin]

every year on this day i think back to what larry silverstein ( lease owner of the wtc properties) said on pbs... " we felt it was best to pull wtc 7"... you can rig a 42 story building to implode in it's foot print in just 8 hours? no, ladies and gentleman. this video is a fake along with every other red herring to come out of the white house the last years. today is the anniversary of the birth of the 4th reich.

[kittycago]

Questions over the elusive Saudi extremist's beard cropped up at a Congressional hearing Monday featuring top US security experts, including Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell.

"First, is this his beard?" Republican Senator Norm Coleman asked the spy chief. "Do we expect that -- is it a signal?"

McConnell swiftly rejected any possibility that the hair in his chin was intended to send any signal to his Al-Qaeda members.

"So far, we do not think there's been a signal. He's done this periodically, as has (Ayman al-) Zawahiri (the group's second-in-command), and there has not been a correlation necessarily between one of these tapes or a public statement and a particular event," McConnell said.

But he wondered whether Bin Laden's beard was genuine.

"The big question in the community this morning, 'Is that beard real,' because as you know, just a few years ago, the last time he appeared, it was very different," he said.

"So we don't know if it's dyed and trimmed or real, but that's one of the things we're looking at. But no specific message."
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if this is our security experts talking we are doomed!does he or doesn't he that is the question?!? a signal? If they weren't running the country I would be laughing .

[Maxx61]

If Americans actually believe this is Bin Ladin, than we haven't really learned anything over the past six years and we might as well be back to yellow cake and speeches in front of the UN again.
It's such an obvious fake, it looks like an SNL skit.

[VOTER]

People take another look:

IT IS ANN COULTER!

[Helzapoppin]

Osama bin Headroom?

[grainger5]

Yeah, really.

[dreamgypsy]

GRRRRRR ok Senator (you should fucking resign for NOT honoring your oath) Coleman do you actually believe its bin laden! This is an imposter plain and simple and another crime against Americans by the corrupt administration and those associated with them! The fear tactics of this administration that resembles Hilters Nazi Germany more and more every fucking day and the MSM is buying it when if you watched Chertoff and Mueller at yesterdays hearing did that look away lower their eyes etc because even THEY know this is fabricated! Someone has to grow some balls at the FBI CIA NSA etc and once and for all call out this corrupt administration once and for fucking all! excuse my language all I have had enough like 7 years ago!
peace

[grainger5]

It's obvious that this video is a fake. But asking the intelligence agencies to do something about it is useless, because these guys have had their balls lopped off long ago, and those things don't grow back.

Or, I could be wrong:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0324_060324_stem_cells.html

[grainger5]

Forget the beard...look at the eyebrow ridges. Not the same. This video is a fake.

[Purple Girl]

Which one of the Bushies sat in the make-up chair for this one ??
Bin laden is as inept and irrelevant as Bush & Cheney. I could give a shit what he says.
Bottom line- any warmongering, power & profit seeker land in my town -I'll blow their heads off. I don't care which 'leader ' they support. They are the enemies of humanity and nature (or god). The ivory tower is being set on fire- frankensteins and we have no intentions of letting you escape your fates.Burn meglomaniacs Burn.

[Sovrana]

And this is what the subject of Bin Laden has been reduced to: a discussion about his beard.

Instead of chasing him, this admin has done a great job of forcing us to chase our own tails.

[NothingButTheTruth]

Chase him for what? Placing explosives in the three towers in New York, firing a cruise missile into the Pentagon and shooting down flight 93?

Your dreamin man! You are in a deep deep sleep!