The Man: a case study.
I'm sure you know all about this Bin Laden tape. If so don't bother with the links but these are my references.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/19/binladen.tape/index.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060120/ap_on_go_ot/us_al_qaida_tape

Well firstly, these guys are willing to negotiate. I'm interested if this negotiation includes the Jews leaving Israel, but I guess we will never know since the door has already been closed. The gist of the statement implied that it probably does.

Here's a couple of things that I really enjoyed though "Counterterror officials said they have seen no specific or credible intelligence to indicate an upcoming al-Qaida attack on the United States." I don't know exactly what they classify as "intelligence," but I'd like to see what they are actually looking for to determine if an attack is going to happen. I mean, the al-Qaida leader stating that they are going to attack the United States seems to be an indication of an upcoming attack.

Oh, it goes on to explain what they are looking for "Nor have they noticed an uptick in terrorist communications "chatter" — although that can dramatically increase or decrease immediately before an attack." First off I want to know what they mean by "chatter." It sounds like chatter is some hodgepodge term for a bunch of crap that they don't even understand. But then, they look for it to increase or decrease. Notice that they didn't even rule out that it could stay the same. This is what we call "intelligence." SERIOUSLY, he said he was gonna attack, he's done it before sounds like some intellegence to me.

Finally I'll end it with this one. "We don't negotiate with terrorists," Vice President
Dick Cheney said in a television interview. "I think you have to destroy them." I told you they were BFF's. This is just like in Brokeback Mountain where Jake Gyllenhaal hits Heath Ledger. Poor guy just didn't know how to express himself in a stressful situation.