"New" Bin Laden Tape Urges Coalition To Stop Killing Terrorists

Kinda. The person speaking says Bin Laden was solely responsible for 9/11, and that al-Qaeda the people, and the Taliban government of Afghanistan, were innocent victims. That sounds to me like someone who realizes they are not winning.

Osama bin Laden is calling on European nations to end their support of "America's oppression" in Afghanistan in an audiotape message just released. Bin Laden says he was responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and that the people and government of Afghanistan are innocent victims of America's war there. Bin Laden said the U.S. pursued a war in Afghanistan despite the fact they had no evidence of a connection to the attacks. He said he attacked America on 9/11 because of the government's involvement in Palestine and Lebanon.

Oh, and still no new video. I guess a video showing the decomposing body of Bin Laden wouldn't be good for recruitment purposes.

The audio message was accompanied by an old still photo of bin Laden, but no new video of the terror leader was released today. In September, bin Laden appeared in a video message which was the first time he was seen on video in three years.

 

A brief clip of the audio is available here.