Bin Laden Videos

Osama bin Laden's home videos show that he didn't want the world to see him with a gray beard.

Oh, bin Laden, you're so vain.

From ABC News:

The government today released five videos found in Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, showing the al Qaeda leader preparing a message to the United States and watching himself on television.

The first was a previously unreleased message from bin Laden directed to the United States that was believed to have been filmed between Oct. 9 and Nov. 5 2010.

In the video, which begins with animated pre-production work, he appears to have dyed his beard black, is wearing a gold shawl over a white vestment and is wearing a white skullcap.

The second video, which runs over a minute long, shows bin Laden watching himself on television and holding the remote control to change the channels between what appear to be Arabic news channels.

...The remaining three videos appear to be practice sessions, possibly for the first video. In each of them he appears to stumble in his speech, stop and begin over.

This footage is among the trove of evidence found after the U.S. raid on the compound Sunday, when bin Laden and four others were killed.

"This is the single largest collection of senior terrorist materials ever," a senior intelligence official said.

We were told bin Laden had no TV in his Abbottabad "mansion." I guess that was wrong.

So bin Laden dyed his beard. He's not doing Just For Men any favors.



There is no audio with the following video because officials didn't want to spread bin Laden's propaganda.

Good idea.



Watch more of the bin Laden home videos here.