The evening before Mr. Burton's release of the tapes, Speaker Newt Gingrich suggested during a West Coast tour that a third party should review them first.
D-E-D space". A recorded voice delivered that refrain through tinny tape deck speakers, droning through third period like a preconceived GPS system for our adolescent fingers.
On the tape the speaker acknowledges feeling "bitterness" that some Iraqis are cooperating with the occupation.
In the five-minute-long tape, the speaker denounced recent cooperation between allied forces and Iraqi politicians and urged Iraqis to rise up against a new Governing Council of Iraqi representatives.
In the 14-minute tape, the speaker said the United States military forces now occupying Iraq would "only reap disappointment with more and more American lives lost".
On the tape, the speaker called for more assaults and ambushes, which on average seem to claim one American life a day.
In the tape the speaker, who sounded like Mr. Khalili but had not been independently verified as such, said that the international community, the election commission and the president all supported Mr. Ghani for president.
On the tape, the speaker denies that Mr. Hussein or his followers were behind last week's bombing in Najaf, Iraq, which killed a top Shiite Muslim cleric and almost a hundred others.
For 25 years, they taped evangelical speakers at conferences in the area, making over 4,500 different recordings.
The vast majority of the tapes feature speakers who, although well-known Muslim preachers, reformers, and radicals across the Arabic-speaking world, were not al Qaeda members.
