Sunday, April 23, 2006

Osama Tape: West Waging a "Crusader War" Against Islam

TERRORISM

Osama bin Laden
COMMENTLINE
Why has Osama released a new audio-tape now?

The last time the Al Qaeda leader was seen on camera was in a videotaped message released just prior to the US presidential elections in late 2004.

On the new tape, Osama calls for Muslims to boycott the West and take action against the US and other countries because of the Muhammad cartoons.

Osama accuses the West of starting a "holy war" against Islam.

NEWSLINE
"I call on mujahidin [fighters] and their supporters, especially in Sudan and the Arab peninsula, to prepare for long war against the crusader plunderers in Western Sudan.

NEWSBYTES
Bin Laden: West waging a crusade
(www.Aljazeera.net) -- Al Jazeera has received an audiotape attributed to Osama bin Laden in which he attacks the West for boycotting Hamas and accuses Western governments of waging a "crusader war" against Islam.

Bin Laden says West waging war on Islam
DUBAI (Reuters) -- Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden said the West's shunning of the Hamas-led Palestinian government showed it was waging a "Crusader-Zionist war" on Muslims, according to an audiotape attributed to him and aired on Sunday.

In Tape, Bin Laden Urges Fighters to Sudan
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Osama bin Laden issued ominous new threats in an audiotape broadcast Sunday, purportedly saying the West was at war with Islam and calling on his followers to go to Sudan to fight a proposed U.N. force.

RESOURCES
Timeline: Al-Qaeda tapes

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2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Bin Laden is a lunatic. Why would anybody in their right minds avert from a life of comfort and wealth to go and be chased out of caves in remote areas of the world? That's insanity. This video proves nothing but the fact he's still active. All his rhetoric is pointless since he says the same thing over and over again with alterations here and there. I condemn this man and the actions that he and his followers have committed over the past two decades.

6:53 PM EDT  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Er, it's an audio tape not a video.

7:20 PM EDT  

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