Saturday, May 07, 2011

Pentagon releases Osama video, begs, pleads with us to remix them

Come on everybody, join in the propaganda.

In life, Osama bin Laden carefully crafted his image as a pious, anti-American leader. In death, he surely wouldn't appreciate the U.S. government releasing his blooper reel.

As part of what a senior U.S. intelligence official called "the greatest intelligence success, perhaps, of a generation," the government has released five videos captured during Sunday's dramatic storming of Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan. None of them display his execution. All have had the sound excised so as not to spread al-Qaida propaganda.


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