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Pak Islamic ultras call bin Laden videotape a US fabrication
Hard-line Islamic militants in Pakistan said that the videotape showing terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden chuckling about the devastation of Sept. 11 was fabricated by the United States to justify the US military campaign in Afghanistan.
Hard-line Islamic militants in Pakistan said that the videotape showing terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden chuckling about the devastation of Sept. 11 was fabricated by the United States to justify the US military campaign in Afghanistan.
This videotape is not authentic, said Riaz Durrani, a spokesman of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, which spearheaded a series of violent pro-Taliban rallies in Pakistan. Americans made it up after failing to get any evidence against Osama.
US officials have said they hoped influential doubters in the Islamic world would be swayed by the tape. I don't see how any rational person could come away thinking, anywhere in the world, that Osama bin Laden had nothing to do with the September 11 events, said Sen Richard Shelby, an Alabama Republican. But most Islamic and militant groups in Pakistan – which vehemently opposed a decision by President Gen Pervez Musharraf to abandon Pakistan's ties to the Taliban and side with the United States in its war against terrorism - said the tape appeared to be concocted.
Ameeruddin Mughal, a spokesman for the outlawed Harkat-ul Mujahedeen, an Islamic militant group fighting in Kashmir, said the tape showed somebody who resembles bin Laden – not the Saudi terrorist himself. In the age of computers and digital technology, it's not difficult to make a fake video, he said.
The aim is to prolong the military operation in Afghanistan, he said.
Bureau Report
US officials have said they hoped influential doubters in the Islamic world would be swayed by the tape. I don't see how any rational person could come away thinking, anywhere in the world, that Osama bin Laden had nothing to do with the September 11 events, said Sen Richard Shelby, an Alabama Republican. But most Islamic and militant groups in Pakistan – which vehemently opposed a decision by President Gen Pervez Musharraf to abandon Pakistan's ties to the Taliban and side with the United States in its war against terrorism - said the tape appeared to be concocted.
Ameeruddin Mughal, a spokesman for the outlawed Harkat-ul Mujahedeen, an Islamic militant group fighting in Kashmir, said the tape showed somebody who resembles bin Laden – not the Saudi terrorist himself. In the age of computers and digital technology, it's not difficult to make a fake video, he said.
The aim is to prolong the military operation in Afghanistan, he said.
Bureau Report