New Bin Laden tape issues threat to civilians

[spindrifter]

Brian Whitaker
Monday April 24, 2006
The Guardian

Osama bin Laden issued an ominous new warning yesterday, apparently seeking to justify attacks on civilians in the west and calling on his supporters to open up a new front in al-Qaida's struggle.

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Referring to current events, he spoke about the Palestinians' election of a Hamas government and urged his supporters to open up a new front in Sudan by fighting a proposed UN force in Darfur.

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"The blockade which the west is imposing on the government of Hamas proves that there is a Zionist-crusader war on Islam," he said.

Hamas immediately distanced itself from the remarks. "The ideology of Hamas is totally different from the ideology of Sheikh bin Laden," a Hamas spokesman, Sami Abu Zuhri, said. He added, however, that the "international siege on the Palestinian people" would create tension in the Arab and Muslim world.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,,1759946,00.html

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Check out the last paragraph, a very telling statement from Senator Kerry.

[CountAllVotes]

1. You mean this part?

>> The Democratic senator John Kerry said the tape "underscores the failure of this administration to capture him".


:dem: :kick:

[spindrifter]

5. Yep--it would have made the no-no

fifth quoted paragraph!

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Tinfoil premise: Do you think Karl Rove wrote that speech? n/t

[DELUSIONAL]

3. Does anyone doubt that Rove had a hand.

bushie isn't doing so well in the polls -- so lets scare the dumb asses and pretend that only bushie can protect them.

[applegrove]

4. Um Osama - the blocade of Palestine is on aid - and not all aid.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

6. Code Red! Time to lock down the country for its own good!

Just in case, don'tcha know...

[applegrove]

7. Osama is a freak. He likes it when women get raped and children

killed.

Oh - and the Palestinians? They just are not getting some aid. Nobody is blockading trade. Emergency aid is still going through. If Radical Islam doesn't want Israel to exist then perhaps they should foot the bill for governance in Palestine.

[blue cat]

8. Did he sound like Michael Moore again? (sarcasm)

[Kailassa]

9. Which Bin Laden? The dead one or one of the actors?

Or did he sit up in his coffin after his 320 rellies ID'd his body the other day, and start reciting the lines the CIA give him all over again?

Where would * be without Mr Big Bearded Terror Merchant to keep the kiddies fwitened?

[sinkingfeeling]

10. So, Rove and Dim Son had bin Laden issue another tape? Poll numbers

are getting too low, have to kick up the 'fear factor'.