Fact-Checking

I didn't expect to be saying this in the days before the election, but bloggers from across the spectrum are fact-checking the latest bin Laden video tape.

Juan Cole considers it to be "highly unlikely" that bin Laden's use of the rhetoric of political liberty is sincere.

Sebastian Holsclaw observes that, contrary to bin Laden's claims, there was little that Bush could have personally done to improve the evacuation of the World Trade Center.

There is also some debate among commentators over whether bin Laden really cares about the Israel-Palestine situation.