Since 2001 he has become the voice of al-Qaida, sending dozens of propaganda messages by video, audiotape and written text, spouting fiery rhetoric against his enemies.
Television signals have little to do with photographic film or audiotape, which is why so many consumer-electronics firms have been able to find a speciality niche.
He then released an audiotape of a phone call in which his host beseeched him to leave early so as not to embarrass George Bush.Mr Fox now has another reason to be irritated with Mr Castro, after Cuba involved itself in a local political scandal.
And within hours of Messrs Tenet's and Mueller's testimony came another explanation for the chatter, and the third prompt for worry: a new audiotape, believed to be of Osama bin Laden.Amongst other things, Mr bin Laden called on Iraqis to carry out suicide attacks against Americans.
Others preferred to testify on audiotape, with their voices disguised.
An audiotape surfaced that purports to record a conversation in late 2001 between César Almeyda, Mr Toledo's former lawyer and a close adviser, and Oscar Villanueva, a retired general who is alleged to have been the cashier of Mr Montesinos's bribery operation (in 2002, he committed suicide while under house arrest).
The prosecution, starting with a dramatic audiotape of the explosion, has moved briskly through questions of motive, means and timing.
When Sunni clerics accused the Badr Brigade (the militia of a prominent Shia party) of sending hit squads to target Sunnis, Mr Zarqawi issued an audiotape on July 5th announcing the formation of a rival force, the Omar Brigade.
On October 7th, the al-Jazeera TV station in Qatar broadcast an audiotape in which, allegedly, Osama bin Laden promised to repay the United States "twofold" for any attack on Muslim countries.
Osama bin Laden allegedly warned of fresh terrorist attacks in America in an audiotape broadcast by al-Jazeera, and also announced a surprising truce in Iraq and Afghanistan to assist reconstruction efforts there.
The biggest, which a British charity is frantically helping to complete in time for the tenth anniversary of the killing, is to have dignified mass graves, video exhibits and audiotape tours that will allow even the illiterate to learn something.Other sites are cruder.
