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Undesired Walrus
14th November 2007, 09:22 AM
The audio of this trial I have found online has the last 6 pages of the below transcript blanked out.

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/images/03/14/transcript_ISN10024.pdf

The tape is censored at the exact moment KSM is going to confirm that the 30 attacks his planned and financed was his own words.

He then, only on the PDF, confirms they are his words and gives a speech on American foriegn policy. Only then the audio returns.

Why is this?
Unsecured Coins
14th November 2007, 09:30 AM
probably because they didn't want to give anyone ideas.. But that's just my opinion.
Undesired Walrus
14th November 2007, 09:36 AM
Yea, but then presumably they wouldn't have released the PDF form. What's the point of getting rid of the audio?

They even censor the 'yes they are my words' bit. What they fear from somebody smacking that onto a musical jihad video baffles me.

If I were a truther I'd be all over this, as he doesn't even read out the statement.

That said, you hear him say 'No, it should read 'shared responsibility' ' when the bloke reads out the part about Pope Paul II, so at least we don't have to imagine him with a blanket thrust over his mouth.
16.5
14th November 2007, 10:47 AM
I know that this has been addressed in this forum. The stated reason for editing the audio was that the "govmint" did not want the audio to be used as Propaganda. i am sure you can see how the spoken word can easily be dropped into videos, tapes and spread throughout the internet in a fashion that is more dramatc and therefore effective than a simple written document.

They were pretty open about this, as i recall.
GreNME
14th November 2007, 10:54 AM
Didn't KSM go to great lengths to 'admit' taking part in a bunch of things that ranged from probable to a bit on the wacky side? I mean like very nearly admitting to a plot to take out the apostrophe or something?
Undesired Walrus
14th November 2007, 10:55 AM
Yea, but not even the 'Yes that is my statement' line from KSM?

That said, the rest of the tapes by other Al Qeada members are not censored. And they have a lot of evidence for their guilt in very vivid detail.
uk_dave
14th November 2007, 11:12 AM
Could it have anything to do with a possible future trial of KSM?

Over to the lawyers....
Undesired Walrus
14th November 2007, 11:25 AM
It's interesting. It's only when you go into intense detail of all the evidence that links Al Qeada to 9/11, in the form of these 14 suspects and their audio filles, the truther position just seems like a humiliation for the West.
Tbone
14th November 2007, 05:54 PM
Didn't KSM go to great lengths to 'admit' taking part in a bunch of things that ranged from probable to a bit on the wacky side? I mean like very nearly admitting to a plot to take out the apostrophe or something?

Dear God, he's going to destroy our grammar!
PhantomWolf
14th November 2007, 08:41 PM
Didn't KSM go to great lengths to 'admit' taking part in a bunch of things that ranged from probable to a bit on the wacky side? I mean like very nearly admitting to a plot to take out the apostrophe or something?

Not really actually. Of the plans that appear to have actually gotten off the drawing board enough to be verified, most of them were known to exist and he or Al Qaeda were prime suspects in them.