Bin Laden Demands Europe Withdraw Afghanistan Troops

Reuters via Yahoo News ^ | 25 Sept 2009 | Reuters

[edpc]

DUBAI (Reuters) – Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden demanded that European nations withdraw their troops from Afghanistan in a new audio tape aired on Friday, saying they were sacrificing men and money in an unjust U.S.-led war.

"We are not demanding anything unjust. It is just for you to end injustice and withdraw your soldiers (from Afghanistan)," he said in the tape, released on the Internet with a background picture of bin Laden and with German and English subtitles.

"One of the greatest injustices is to kill people unjustly, and this is exactly what your governments and soldiers are committing under the cover of the NATO alliance in Afghanistan," bin Laden said in the recording, entitled "A message to the people of Europe."

[edpc]

Given the latest reports about the US assessment of Afghanistan, it sounds like he has Obama's attention.

[FTJM]

Timed just right when the Amateur is thinking about withdrawing troops. He can claim victory afterward.

[smonk]

--One of the greatest injustices is to kill people unjustly---

jeez. I suppose the horrible irony of this statement is lost on the evil lunatic.

[skully]

Whew good thing Osama didn't demand America withdraw it's troops...Zero would have acquiesced.

[HighlyOpinionated]

Afghanistan will be 0bama’s Viet Nam.

0bamaCare = Waterloo
Afghanistan = Viet Nam

And number Three will be?

[Marty62]

Well I can see his point. Zero has already surrendered. Now he needs to get EU to surrender.

[dirtboy]

Cap and Trade - the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Obama speaks from the grave...

[edpc]

Unfortunately it looks like Iran = Armageddon

[Maceman]

BinLaden is betting the President Obama will ultimately try to reduce our presence in Afghanistan, or waffle about it to the point where our allies lose what little confidence they have left and start withdrawing their troops.

Then Bin Laden can claim credit when it happens, thus boosting his flagging reputation in the Muslim terrorist population, and their supporters/enablers.

[rjones42]

Obama’s relpy. “OK”

[backwoods-engineer]

The easiest way to win a war is to sap your enemy's will to fight. If that is accomplished by this rhetoric, bin Laden will have almost won back Afghanistan. If 0zero capitulates, too, then we are right back to September 10, 2001.

[Chode]

settle down goathumper... the Zer0 is pulling us out at this very moment.

something the boys father should of done.

[Cindy]

ON THE INTERNET:

COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG.org (NEFA FOUNDATION) - Full Text: "A Message from Shaykh Usama Bin Laden to the People of Europe.'" by Evan Kohlmann (September 25, 2009)

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MEMRI.org - Special Dispatch No. 2562: "Osama Bin Laden in Audio Message 'To The People of Europe'" (September 25, 2009)

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[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Obama speaks from the grave...

Oops. Meant to say Osama.