Take into consideration what we DO know:
*There have been AT LEAST 13 statements have allegedly been issued by bin Laden since the 9/11 Attacks
*At least 6 of these were videos
*At least 7 of these were audio recordings
*At least 9 out of those 13 were obtained initially by Al-Jazeera (an Arabic news/television network headquartered in Doha, Qatar).
*The authenticity of some of these tapes is an ongoing dispute for some.
*At least one of the videotapes was obtained by U.S. military forces in Afghanistan and released on December 13, 2001 through the Pentagon – the CIA officially stated that it was “probably” authentic.
*Bin Laden denied involvement with the 9/11 attacks five days later on the Al-Jazeera satellite channel. The Bush administration urged media in the U.S. not to show the video as they claimed it might contain signals to other elements of al-Qaeda.
*Many of the statements have been seen by viewers of Al-Jazeera. Less Americans have seen the statements. Less Americans have doubted the authenticity of the statements.
*Al-Jazeera has been threatened for showing the speech (audio/visual) of Bin Laden for fear that it might incite followers.
*Bin Laden has used his speech to persuade followers.
*The Bush administration has used his speech as further justification for the War on Terror.
Aims of the bin Laden Speech research project:
-More intense search for access to bin Laden speech
-Deeper analysis of the content of the speech
-Deeper analysis of what is available to the public – what has been excluded by American media
-Deeper analysis of what impact the speech might have on different audiences
-More analysis of the significance of bin Laden’s speech for all participants in the War on Terror (Americans, Muslims, the Bush administration, terrorists, etc).
-Philosophical connections between bin Laden speech and theory of Free Speech
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