Messages From Bin Laden Since 9-11

Ap,google ^ | 03.19.08

[Perdogg]

Audio and video messages from al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden since Sept. 11, 2001:

_ March 19, 2008: Slams European countries for the publication of cartoons insulting to the Prophet Muhammad and promises a strong reaction, saying "the response will be what you see and not what you hear."

_ Dec. 29, 2007: Warns Iraq's Sunni Arabs against fighting al-Qaida and vows to expand the terror group's holy war to Israel.

_ Nov. 29, 2007: Urges Europeans to stop helping U.S. in Afghanistan conflict, saying on audiotape that war was unfair because he was the "only one responsible" for the Sept. 11 attack.

[Brian S. Fitzgerald]

the proclamations have been getting rather trite as of late

[A CA Guy]

We haven’t heard much from him since he took up with his new love interest. What is the name of his camel again?

[Riodacat]

I can't wait for McCain to track this son-of-a-bitch to the gates of hell and beyond - even if it means we have to sacrifice our future POTUS to get this bastard..

[Jay777]

Video and audio of message here.

[RDTF]

the mummy?

[Jay777]

Sure took him a long time to get outraged. Interesting how they think we are all too stupid to know this is recycled crap! Watch the audio w/ still photo. If they can't put a video camera on the man and show the world he is alive....he isn't.

[Mr. Peabody]

Correct. He’s dead. People at the CIA seem to have an interest in keeping him alive by authenticating this stuff.

If he were alive he would have video comparable to what Zahwahiri puts out.

[No Left Turn]

"the response will be what you see and not what you hear."

Chemical attack?

[Skooz]

He’s dead, Jim.

[Riodacat]

Thanks for that.....

[sanchmo]

The latest message is beyond parody: Hostility between human beings is very old, but the intelligent ones among the nations in all eras have been keen to observe the etiquettes of dispute and the morals of fighting... Although our tragedy in your killing of our women and children is a very great one, it paled when you went overboard in your unbelief and freed yourselves of the etiquettes of dispute and fighting and went to the extent of publishing these insulting drawings. This is the greater and more serious tragedy...

So killing innocent women and children is acceptable, but drawing cartoons are war crimes, according to this message. WTF?!?

Wretcherd has an interesting take on what this bizarre message might mean:

What makes the Mohammed Cartoon attack on radical Islam so potent that Bin Laden himself must oppose it?...

Allah's will... permits Wahabists to describe mass-murder and outrage as "holy". It's holy because Allah commands it; and for the Faithful, Allah commands it because Muhammed says he did. Caricature Muhammed and the whole system falls to the ground... Without the authority of Mohammed, not only Wahabism but the world itself falls to pieces... That's why Bin Laden focuses his ire upon the Muhammed Cartoons...

Osama Bin Laden must on no account allow anyone else to cross for fear of what will follow: inflatable Mohammeds, Numa-numa Mohammeds, or Allah forbid, Gay Mohammeds... He fears freedom; fears individuals unrestrained by the bonds of political correctness. And he fears, as anyone who has noticed his dour mien should have guessed, scorn and laughter above all...