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No. I don't watch tv.
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Don't believe everything you hear...... (Especially from an organization that makes a living selling disinformation campaigns.)
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I don't. While I certainly don't see the CIA as infallible (I grew up in the DC area and know of too many stories of friend's CIA parents locking themselves out of the house or setting half the lawn afire when barbecuing
), I think they generally deserve fairly high marks on analysis (failing to predict the USSR's implosion, notwithstanding.
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In this instance, it seems a pretty straight forward effort to compare recordings of previous known UBL recordings to the one from this past June referring to al-Zarqawi's demise. Digital voice spectrum analyis can point up differences that the human ear might miss [I recall seeing a print out of Rich Little doing John Wayne and Wayne's real voice and they were markedly different.])
As others could do this as well, and the stakes (particularly in the present political climate) are high enough that getting it wrong could have significant consequences, I see little reason to doubt this analysis. I did a google search last night, and a little research at the library this afternoon, but haven't found anyone offering evidence to the contrary.
I'd love to believe that UBL is taking a dirt nap. I'd been saying for more than a year that I thought he died choking on a pork chop bone while watching a donkey show in TJ and that the cantina owners panicked fearing what the
federales would do to them and fed UBL's corpse to their 72 pigs. (Which is, IMO, a fitting end.
) Lacking some evidence (e.g., a voice analysis that showed a match with UBL's son) to suggest that the recording is other than UBL, I'm inclined to believe it is his voice. Occam's razor and all that.