a "former Scotland Yard detective" discusses the "smoking gun" bin Laden video:

[Doug Millison]

a "former Scotland Yard detective" discusses the "smoking gun" bin Laden video:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,618755,00.html

the article concludes:

"If the video condemns Bin Laden however, it also exonerates others, whom
he states had nothing to do with the US operations. It also highlights
American shortcomings in failing to intercept communications between Atta
and Bin Laden in the days before September 11th.

The video is not quite the smoking gun the Americans claim it to be. But
it's certainly closer than they could ever have reasonably hoped for. "