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.
go pound sand...Osama....
Why doesn't Osama just refer all questions to Howard Dean? It would cut down on the middle man between the two.
Aside from Osama continuing to mimic the kooks...
Not a smart move. Offering a "truce", though he would never follow through, is showing a hand of weakness. Further evidence Al Quida has been severely hurt in this war.
YIKES! We sure could use you at the Gitmo club! LOL!
Anyone know what role a Global Hawk would play, if any, in this role? Found out my neighbors daughter flys a global hawk out of Nellis AFB. From what I gather her ground crew is in Iraq. Amazing technology......
The DUmmies are all saying that Bush pulled Osama out of the hat to make another tape. Osama just magically re-appears every time Bush is in big trouble.
They also recognize that they will sound just like Osama for repeating the same appease/withdraw talking points that Osama is.
Not surprisingly, in a DU poll, they are actually saying that we SHOULD do a "truce" with Al-Qaeda:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x182954
I guess he must think that all Americans are stupid enough to actually believe what he says. He is a son of Satan, not to be trusted no matter what he says.
Well if someone does know, posting information on an internet forum would be not smart. You should probably ask a mod to remove your comment about your neighbors daughter. Loose lips sink ships - and could get your neigbors daughter killed.
OBL would like that very much - he doesn't like most of the Arab leaders.
It's kinda like writing a phraseolgy book. And don't forget, you're using different interpretors all the time....so what we read is not the "phraseolgy book".
They've actually advanced to the point they accept they sound like Osama huh? Evolution is said to be a slow process...
I wonder if they've ever considered that Osama thinks he's helping them out by validating their treasonous rhetoric, that's why these tapes appear when he's "in big trouble". Though I dispute Bush is on the ropes at this time.
That they, and Osama, are the ones that misread the public and these comments instead cause an intense backlash against both because the American people in Majority are not French.
Did you notice how he is trumpeting all of the DNC talking points. UBL even follows Zogby and CNN polls...LMAO.
When the Dems start squealling about this, I think we should all suggest THEY put togehter then negotiation team After all we KNOW Sen. Jay "Traitor" Rockefeller ran all over the ME to warn everyone GWB was going to liberate Iraq.
There can be no doubt as to who the leader of the Democratic Party is. It is Osama bin Laden.
Wonder what those 'conditions' are?
And no quarter!
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