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Bin Laden Offers truce In Purported tape
Reuters | 1/19/06 | Yara Bayoumy

Posted on 01/19/2006 8:49:06 AM PST by snowrip

Bin Laden Offers Truce in Purported Tape Terrorist Leader Threatens New Attacks Against U.S. By Yara Bayoumy, Reuters

DUBAI (Jan. 19) -- Osama bin Laden warned that al-Qaida was preparing new attacks inside the United States, but said the group was open to a conditional truce with Americans, according to an audiotape attributed to him on Thursday.

Al Jazeera television, which aired the tape, said it was recorded in the Muslim month that corresponded to December.

"The operations are under preparation and you will see them in your houses as soon as they are complete, God willing," said the speaker on the audiotape, who sounded like bin Laden .

In the tape, broadcast by al Jazeera television, bin Laden said al-Qaida was willing to respond to the fact that public U.S. opinion favored withdrawing troops from Iraq.

"We have no objection to responding to this with a long-term truce based on fair conditions," he said.

Bin Laden issued an audiotape in April 2004 in which he also offered a truce -- on that occasion to Europe, but not to the United States. Bin Laden Messages, Past and Present

AFP/Getty "The operations are under preparation and you will see them in your houses as soon as they are complete, God willing." -- Audiotape, purportedly by Osama bin Laden, aired by Al-Jazeera Jan. 19

Timeline: Bin Laden's Messages

Analysts saw the move at the time as an attempt to drive a wedge between the United States and its allies and to scare wavering coalition members out of Iraq.

In the brief segments aired on Thursday, bin Laden ridiculed President Bush for misreading public opinion which he said showed Americans wanted U.S. forces to quit Iraq.

He also said Iraq had become a recruiting ground for militants. Al-Qaida in Iraq, led by one of bin Laden 's deputies, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, is one of several insurgent groups fighting U.S. and foreign forces. U.S. and Iraqi officials say many of their members are non-Iraqis.

"Your president is misinterpreting public opinion polls which show that the vast majority of you support the withdrawal of your forces from Iraq," bin Laden said.

"He (Bush) disagreed with this desire and said the withdrawal of troops will give the wrong message to the enemy and that it is better to fight them on their ground than on our ground."

"Reality shows that the war against the U.S. and its allies is not just restricted to Iraq as he claims, but Iraq has become a gravitational point and a recruiting ground for qualified (mujahideen)."

A U.S. counterterrorism official said U.S. intelligence was assessing the tape to determine its authenticity.

Bin Laden 's last audiotape was in December 2004. The interval between then and now is his longest public silence since al-Qaida's September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001.

Saudi-born bin Laden and his right-hand man, Ayman al-Zawahri, are believed to be hiding in a mountainous area on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

On Thursday, Pakistani intelligence sources said four top al-Qaida militants were believed to have been killed in a U.S. airstrike last week which U.S. officials say was aimed at Zawahri.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: binladen; gwot; heynicelink; hudna; manhunt; obl; obltape; truce; wheresthelink
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1 posted on 01/19/2006 8:49:07 AM PST by snowrip
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To: snowrip

There will be peace when you are in Hell Binny.


2 posted on 01/19/2006 8:50:25 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Is there a satire god who created Al Gore for the sole purpose of making us laugh?)
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To: snowrip
Osama bin Laden warned that al-Qaida was preparing new attacks inside the United States, but said the group was open to a conditional truce with Americans, according to an audiotape attributed to him on Thursday.

For every American killed we will take an Arab leader...

3 posted on 01/19/2006 8:51:33 AM PST by GOPJ
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To: MNJohnnie
No truce.
4 posted on 01/19/2006 8:51:36 AM PST by Diva Betsy Ross (Embrace peace- Hug an American soldier- the real peace keepers.)
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To: snowrip
Osama bin Laden warned that al-Qaida was preparing new attacks inside the United States, but said the group was open to a conditional truce with Americans, according to an audiotape attributed to him on Thursday.

For every American killed we will take an Arab leader...

5 posted on 01/19/2006 8:51:50 AM PST by GOPJ
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To: snowrip

Thanks Binny, but only surrender will do.


6 posted on 01/19/2006 8:52:04 AM PST by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: MNJohnnie

Is he getting counsel from the french now??


7 posted on 01/19/2006 8:52:15 AM PST by wallcrawlr (http://www.bionicear.com/)
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To: snowrip

Sounds like he has gotten some sand in his eyes, and is seriously blinking.


8 posted on 01/19/2006 8:52:20 AM PST by Paradox (Liberalism IS a religion.)
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To: snowrip
next we will see osama has accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and savior
9 posted on 01/19/2006 8:52:31 AM PST by Battle Hymn of the Republic
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To: MNJohnnie
There will be peace when you are in Hell Binny.

Not only him, but every one of his goat-humping, knuckle-dragging, troglodyte followers.
10 posted on 01/19/2006 8:52:31 AM PST by Spruce (Keep your mitts off my wallet)
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To: snowrip

Again Osama repeats Democrat talking points. Or is it the other way around?


11 posted on 01/19/2006 8:52:52 AM PST by thoughtomator
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To: snowrip

"The operations are under preparation and you will see them in your houses as soon as they are complete, God willing,"

EnShala my a@@. We shall continue to squeeze your testicles in a vice until you are dead.


12 posted on 01/19/2006 8:53:14 AM PST by roaddog727 (P=3/8 A. or, P=plenty...............)
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To: snowrip

Don't trust him. He needs to surrender, together with al-Zawahiri.

Then we can talk about reparations.


13 posted on 01/19/2006 8:53:58 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant
Al-taqiyya

The word "al-Taqiyya" literally means: "Concealing or disguising one's beliefs, convictions, ideas, feelings, opinions, and/or strategies at a time of eminent danger, whether now or later in time, to save oneself from physical and/or mental injury."

14 posted on 01/19/2006 8:54:35 AM PST by michigander (The Constitution only guarantees the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
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To: thoughtomator

The only difference is that the Democrats don't give a damn whether God is willing.


15 posted on 01/19/2006 8:54:58 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: snowrip
but said the group was open to a conditional truce with Americans

Is it just me, or it somewhat strange for a "religious" movement to offer a truce with "the great Satan"???

16 posted on 01/19/2006 8:55:05 AM PST by Onelifetogive (* Sarcasm tag ALWAYS required. For some FReepers, sarcasm can NEVER be obvious enough.)
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To: snowrip

The "peace" of Saladin.


17 posted on 01/19/2006 8:55:05 AM PST by Supernatural (All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie! bob dylan)
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To: GOPJ

TARLETONS QUARTER!!!!


18 posted on 01/19/2006 8:55:17 AM PST by Zavien Doombringer (13th AF, 3rd TFW, 3rd AGS, 3rd AMU - ESC The Blue Screw will get you too! 86-89)
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To: snowrip

Perusal of the Koran reveals that this is a strategy that is recommended when a Moslem group is at a disadvantage against a superior foe. Such a truce is to be maintained until such time as the Moslem group has built up it's forces and has an expectation of success in combat, at which point the truce is ended.


19 posted on 01/19/2006 8:55:46 AM PST by RonF
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To: thoughtomator
Again Osama repeats Democrat talking points. Or is it the other way around?

Hard to tell - parts of the speech sounded like Murtha...

20 posted on 01/19/2006 8:56:36 AM PST by GOPJ
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