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Osama bin Laden:
A dead nemesis perpetuated by the US government

Osama bin Laden is dead. The news first came from sources in Afghanistan and Pakistan almost six months ago: the fugitive died in December [2001] and was buried in the mountains of southeast Afghanistan. Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, echoed the information. The remnants of Osama's gang, however, have mostly stayed silent, either to keep Osama's ghost alive or because they have no means of communication.

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With an ego the size of Mount Everest, Osama bin Laden would not have, could not have, remained silent for so long if he were still alive. He always liked to take credit even for things he had nothing to do with. Would he remain silent for nine months and not trumpet his own survival? [New York Times. July 11, 2002]

Osama bin who?

Israel does not view bin Laden as a threat.:)

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The Fake bin Laden Audio Tape

11/30/2002 - Swiss scientists: "The recording is a fake"

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Voice Cloning - Software Recreates Voices Of Living & Dead

By Lisa Guernsey
New York Times
8-1-1
http://www.rense.com/general12/ld.htm


AT&T Labs will start selling speech software that it says is so good at reproducing the sounds, inflections and intonations of a human voice that it can re-create voices and even bring the voices of long-dead celebrities back to life.

The software, which turns printed text into synthesized speech, makes it possible for a company to use recordings of a person's voice to utter new things that the person never said.

The software, called Natural Voices, is not flawless -- its utterances still contain a few robotic tones and unnatural inflections -- and competitors question whether the software is a substantial step up from existing products. But some of those who have tested the technology say it is the first text-to-speech software to raise the specter of voice cloning, replicating a person's voice so perfectly that the human ear cannot tell the difference.

``If ABC wanted to use Regis Philbin's voice for all of its automated customer-service calls, it could,'' said Lawrence R. Rabiner, vice president for AT&T Labs Research.

Potential customers for the software, which is priced in the thousands of dollars, include telephone call centers, companies that make software that reads digital files aloud and makers of automated voice devices.

James R. Fruchterman, the chief executive of Benetech, a non-profit organization that uses technology in social-service projects, tested the software along with a dozen people who evaluate technology for blind people, and they said they were impressed.

``Natural Voices gets into the gray area,'' he said, ``where there is plausible deniability that it is a machine.''

Rabiner said he is excited about the possibility of resurrecting renowned voices, like that of Harry Caray, the Chicago Cubs announcer who delivered rousing play-by-play broadcasts. ``There are probably hours of recordings in archives,'' he said. Wouldn't it be great, he asked, if Harry Caray's voice could once again be broadcasting in Wrigley Field?

Ownership issues

The technology raises several questions. Who, for example, owns the rights to a celebrity's voice? Rabiner predicted that new contracts will be drawn that include voice-licensing clauses.

With computer-generated characters already appearing in place of real ones in some movies, will computer-synthesized voices compete with those of live actors as well?

And although scientists say the technology is not yet good enough to perpetrate fraud, synthesized voices may eventually be capable of tricking people into thinking that they were getting phone calls from people they know.

For now, technical limitations may temper any worries that a person's voice could be lifted without permission.

To build the software that re-creates unique voices -- which AT&T Labs is calling its ``custom voice'' product -- a person must first go to a studio where engineers record 10 hours to 40 hours of readings. Texts range from business news reports to nonsense babble. The recordings are then chopped into fragments of sounds and sorted into databases. When the software processes a text, it retrieves the sounds and re-assembles them to form new sentences.

Gains in synthetic speech

In the case of long-dead celebrities, archival recordings could be used in the same way.

Other companies and research centers, like IBM Research and Lernout and Hauspie, are also experimenting with this technique -- which is called concatenative speech synthesis -- to improve the quality of text-to-speech software. It is a big step up, engineers say, from the speech engines that were built from whole words that had been pre-recorded. And it is also a vast improvement, some say, from the entirely computer-generated and therefore robotic sounds that are used in many versions of text-to-speech software on the market today.

Now aided by the declining cost and increasing speed of microprocessors, far smoother sentences are possible, Rabiner said. He said that the speech team at AT&T Labs, led by Juergen Schroeter, an expert in speech synthesis, had created a more refined form of the concatenative technique by breaking a person's voice into ``the smallest number of units possible.''

A demonstration of the technology will be available on the Web beginning today at www.naturalvoices.att.com, said Michael Dickman, a spokesman for AT&T Labs.

Still, many engineers are skeptical of claims of a completely simulated voice that is almost indistinguishable from that of a human.

Now the pressure is on to perfect the technology. Analysts at McKinsey & Co. have predicted that the market for text-to-speech software will reach more than $1 billion in the next five years. In addition to customers like call centers and manufacturers of automated voice systems, the software could also be used by publishers of video games and books-on-tape and automobile manufacturers whose cars are equipped with software that gives driving directions. In the near future, engineers have said they expect people will want high-end speech technology that enables them to interact at length with their cell phones and Palm organizers, instead of typing on and squintingat a tiny screen.

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Bin Laden Urges Pakistanis to Rebel Against Musharraf

By VOA News
20 September 2007
http://voanews.com/english/2007-09-20-voa9.cfm

Al-Qaida terrorist chief Osama bin Laden has called on Pakistanis to rebel against President Pervez Musharraf.

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Image taken from a banner advertisement featured on an Islamic militant Web site where al-Qaida's media arm, Al-Sahab, frequently posts messages, 06 Sep 2007

U.S. terrorism experts say al-Qaida's media unit, As-Sahab produced a bin Laden audio message that was released Thursday on Islamic militant Web sites. They say bin Laden's voice can be heard over previously released video footage of the terrorist leader.

In the recording, bin Laden calls General Musharraf an "infidel" and says al-Qaida will retaliate against him for the killing of a militant cleric by Pakistani forces.

Pakistani troops killed the cleric, Abdul Rashid Ghazi, and more than 100 of his followers in a raid on Islamabad's Red Mosque in July. The mosque had become a stronghold of Islamic militants.

Pakistan's army spokesman, Major General Waheed Arshad dismissed bin Laden's threat, saying it will not deter the military from fighting extremists and terrorists.

Al-Qaida released a video message and an audio recording of bin Laden earlier this month to coincide with the sixth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States. The video was the first new footage of bin Laden for three years.

Hours before Thursday's bin Laden recording was released, al-Qaida issued a new video of bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

In that recording, Zawahiri also condemns the Pakistani military's assault on the Red Mosque and calls for revenge.

Bin Laden and Zawahiri are believed to be hiding in the border area between Pakistan and Afghanistan. The United States has offered a $25 million reward for the capture of either man.

Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.

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Haahaa, let the truth be known!

lol, he also have the exactly same clothes on the pictures:rolleyes: