US Marines Shot in Al Qaeda Raid
US Marines Shot in Al Qaeda Raid
October 09, 2002
My prayers go out to US marines shot in 'al-Qa'eda raid'
This attack was apparently the result of signals hidden in the fake Bin Laden tape, which I debunked as soon as it first appeared.
Secretary Rumsfeld now says there is no indication the tape was made recently. Most likely, it is only being released now as a kind of hidden message.
Even though Drudge quickly took down his link to the fake, it was too late. He and other irresponsible journalists, including AP and the Washington Post, had already been duped into publicizing the hidden message.
A number of readers have asked about "steganography" - in which a message is hidden inside of another apparently unrelated message.
A simple example here would be the scripture passage Bin Laden seems to quote(3:64). He apparently misquotes it - (Here is the accurate quotation). Bin Laden leaves out the first word 'Say'.
It's unlikely he would simply make a mistake. And a student of the Koran would know immediately that he departed from the scripture. So in that difference could be the hidden message.
More about steganography later...
