In the particular area where the pictures where taken, it is law that vehicles have to update their number plates every year. Look at the vehicles in the footage it is from 1991. We will probably never know the truth why this is happening, but america and the rest of the world are on the verge of a massive recession. What better way to make some cash. Start another war. They have spent so long building Bin Laden up as a villian, it is impossible to let him go now. You know this is economic, oil