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Joining me now is terrorism specialist evan coleman. >> thank you very much. >> why release the tapes? >> i think the purpose of releasing this is to knock bin laden down a notch. to show him as a bumbling idiot as opposed to a sophisticated terrorist leader with his loyal followers. the idea is this a a human being. the problem is to really get that point across you need the audio. if you want to show him bumbling through a speech and messing it up, you have to hear that. right now all we have ...

Islamabad station chief. how does that sort of thing materially affect our work in some cases with pakistan? >> its not going to help things. thats for sure. thats the question here. is that the pack stop signees are accusing the united states of waging a war without their consent. the real question are why are the pack stop signees so hesitant, fighting so hard against trying to crack down on the pack stop signee taliban. we have mainstream pakistani politicians talking about trying to make a p...

Materially affect our work in some cases with pakistan? >> its not going to help things. thats for sure. thats the question here. is that the pack stop signees are accusing the united states of waging a war without their consent. the real question are why are the pack stop signees so hesitant, fighting so hard against trying to crack down on the pack stop signee taliban. we have mainstream pakistani politicians talking about trying to make a peace treaty with the pack stop signee taliban at the ...

Releasing this is to knock bin laden down a notch. to show him as a bumbling idiot as opposed to a sophisticated terrorist leader with his loyal followers. the idea is this a a human being. the problem is to really get that point across you need the audio. if you want to show him bumbling through a speech and messing it up, you have to hear that. right now all we have have a few images of bin laden staring to the left to the side. it doesnt have the full impact. it may have a more impact in the ...

Bin laden, but not having facilitated this action in a way that they have other arrests? >> theres no doubt that pakistan finds itself in an almost lose-lose situation. if on one hand were going to take pakistani officials words for value that they knew about the pop ration or that they had the intelligence or cooperated with the united states, then theres no doubt that that has put them in the same boat with the united states in becoming a target for perhaps future al qaeda attacks. so that is ...

So the pack stop signee government findsist in a difficult position in either scenario or narrative it decides to adopt. one thing to keep in mind, not to pay too much attention to where osama bin laden was and how close he was to islamabad. certainly well learn more about the intelligence. keep in mind that throughout the course of history identifying people has been very difficult in. the united states tracking down the unabomber down several years and heefs here in the united states with if f...