correct link

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Beardsley" <db@...>

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Afmmjr@...>
>
>
> > In a message dated 2/13/03 2:12:55 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> > kraiggrady@... writes:
> >
> >
> > > I thought the swiss proved that the last tape was a fake. if he is
even
> > > alive
> > > in the end, he doesn't have to be.
> >
> > So, you are saying the Swiss have found some holes in the tape? Hasn't
> made
> > it to any media I've experienced yet. Pins and needles everywhere.
Hard
> to
> > know how relevant Iraq is to an "inevitable" WMD attack by al Queda.
>

oops!

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=105&sid=1627978

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> > > > I thought the swiss proved that the last tape was a fake.

> http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=105&sid=1627978

Above only says IDIAP not interested in analyzing new tape.

This one is more interesting:
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=105&sid=1485474

"Swiss researchers say they are 95 per cent certain that a recent
audio tape attributed to the Saudi dissident, Osama bin Laden, is not
genuine. The Lausanne-based Dalle Molle Institute for Perceptual
Artificial Intelligence (IDIAP) claims it was recorded by an
impostor."

Now read the actual report from IDIAP:
http://www.idiap.ch/pages/press/bin-laden-eval.pdf
"While this study does not permit us to draw any definite
(statistically significant) conclusions, it nonetheless shows that
there is serious room for doubt, and that it is also difficult to
agree with some US officials saying that it is 100% sure that it is
bin Laden."

Where in the world did the information in the first article come
from?? Obviously not from the actual IDIAP report.

Summary: Nobody has proved anything one way or another.

Interesting reading though! Brings me back to college when I worked
on a group project involving speech recognition software. Fun stuff.

kp