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[Alex G]

Osama bin laden Home Movies
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42941138/ns/world_news-death_of_bin_laden/

The Pentagon today released five home videos of Osama bin Laden obtained during the raid on his compound in Abbottabad.

The first video contains “[a] complete, unreleased message to the American people” recorded between October 9th and November 5th of last year. Three of the five, dubbed “practice videos,” show a bin Laden — his beard dyed black — preparing to record various scripted statements. The fifth (above) features footage of a frail-looking, blanket-wrapped, gray-beaded bin Laden sitting on the floor of his compound, watching news coverage of himself on an old television.

NYT’s The Lede points out that “[a]t two points during the footage…Bin Laden appeared to click away immediately when the news broadcasts he was watching showed footage of President Obama.”
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/07/c-i-a-briefing-on-bin-laden-documents/?hp#one-account-of-the-videos

All five clips have been intentionally stripped of their audio, as Pentagon officials considered it “inappropriate” to spread “the word of a terrorist.”