First came Osama's audiotape showing his appetite for destruction has been tempered by reality - the call for hudna. Now we're getting a Zawahiri videotape. While the new Zawahiri tape has some time specific information, mentioning protests in Egypt that happened last month, there's no way to know whether this tape was made before or after the raid on the terrorist compound in Pakistan that resulted in at least four high level al Qaeda terrorists being killed (according to Pakistani officials).
Are they simply communicating from beyond the grave with tapes that have been released posthumously to rally their weary terrorist minions or are they actually alive and presented these videos to show that they're still large and in charge of al Qaeda.
That's the quandry facing the intelligence services around the world. The images and voices of those in the tapes are those of Osama and Zawahiri according to intel agencies and the various talking heads, but without the time specific information, there's simply no way to know for sure.
So the hunt must go on.
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