Woofmeister
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A video tape is not a valid self-confession. Quite often people claim to commit crimes they were not part of. Happens quite often with the Taliban.
Why would it be a fiasco? He was an alleged international war criminal and should have been tried at an international court. History will look at this incident as proof of the hypocrisy of the American Empire.
Even for Green Bean, this has to be one of the stupidest postings in the history of this forum. Are you seriously suggesting that OBL's video tapes claiming responsibility for 9-11 would not be admissible in court as evidence of his guilt? I can assure you that insofar as they were voluntarily made, so long as they were authenticated, OBL's videos and audio tapes would be admissible in either a U.S. federal court or the International Criminal Court as evidence.
Are you suggesting that OBL falsely took credit for 9-11 and that therefore, the US government was obliged not to take him at his word? Really? Here' s an experiment--walk up to a policeman with your hand in your pocket mimicking a gun and announce in a loud voice that you are going to shoot him--we will all have a good laugh over your families' unsuccessful wrongful death action.
Outside of the nut job Islamic World, I think history's verdict with regard to the U.S. response to 9-11 up through and including the shooting of the fugitive criminal mastermind behind one of the greatest single mass murders in history will be that justice was done.
