Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Friday, Bush rejected critics in the Islamic world of a videotape of the Saudi dissident released by the United States, saying it was "preposterous for anybody to think this tape was doctored." On Thursday, the Pentagon released a nearly hour-long videotape captured in a house in the Afghan city of Jalalabad that showed bin Laden discussing the September 11 attacks, boasting about his involvement and laughing at the destruction As US forces were said to be closing in on bin Laden in eastern Afghanistan, Bush said it did not matter to him whether bin Laden was brought in dead or alive. "I don`t care. Dead or alive, either way. It doesn`t matter to me," Bush Bush spoke during a picture-taking session with visiting Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Some critics in the Islamic world have claimed the poor quality videotape had been doctored. Bush rejected that.
"It is preposterous for anybody to think that this tape is doctored. That`s just a feeble excuse to provide weak support for an incredibly evil man." Bush also said he had wrestled with whether to make the tape public or not.