# How does Al Jazeera get the Osama tapes?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 14, 2004, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-al-jazeera-get-the-osama-tapes/274719 "2004-11-14T16:44:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2004, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-al-jazeera-get-the-osama-tapes/274719/1 "2004-11-14T16:44:40Z")

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Apologies if I spelled that wrong. How do they aquire those Osama tapes?

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**Author:** ![vinniepaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b4bc9f/32.png) [@vinniepaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vinniepaz)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2004, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-al-jazeera-get-the-osama-tapes/274719/2 "2004-11-14T17:32:13Z")

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I’m pretty sure the last one was given to them through a series of intermediaries. No cite though.

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**Author:** ![Avenger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de0a6/32.png) [@Avenger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avenger)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2004, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-al-jazeera-get-the-osama-tapes/274719/3 "2004-11-14T17:44:23Z")

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> [@vinniepaz](#):
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> I’m pretty sure the last one was given to them through a series of intermediaries. No cite though.

I’m not sure you’d need the cite, I think it’s a fair bet he didn’t take it round himself 😉

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**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2004, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-al-jazeera-get-the-osama-tapes/274719/4 "2004-11-14T20:11:53Z")

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The most recent _alleged_ tape was mailed to them from Pakistan.

Note: A lot of people are highly skeptical about whether Osama is making these tapes or not.

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**Author:** ![vinniepaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b4bc9f/32.png) [@vinniepaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vinniepaz)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2004, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-al-jazeera-get-the-osama-tapes/274719/5 "2004-11-14T20:15:22Z")

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> [@Avenger](#):
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> I’m not sure you’d need the cite, I think it’s a fair bet he didn’t take it round himself 😉

What I was trying to say was that there’s a vast web of people who probably don’t know anything about any of the other people so that they can’t trace it back.