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Osama bin Laden Warns Americans In New Tape Message appeared in Web site often used by al Qaeda supporters DUBAI - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden issued an apparently new audio tape on an Islamist Web site on Monday, warning the American people over their government's close ties to Israel. The message, entitled "A statement to the American people," was approximately 10 minutes long and appeared on a Web site often used by supporters of al Qaeda. The same Web site said earlier this month it would soon carry a "present" to Muslims from bin Laden, who is thought...

WASHINGTON, Sept 13, 2009 (AFP) - A new audio purported to be an "address to the American public" from Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden has been released by the militant network's media branch, a US-based terror monitoring group said Sunday. Al-Qaeda's As-Sahab media released a video featuring a still image of bin Laden and an audio statement, said IntelCenter, noting that there were no subtitles or transcript yet available.

Special Dispatch - No. 2282 March 16, 2009 No. 2282 Bin Laden in New Audio Message: Victory in Iraq Will Allow Us to Infiltrate Jordan, Enter West Bank, and Liberate Al-Aqsa

Osama bin Laden released a new audio today tape, which was quickly played on Al Jazerra before anyone had a chance to listen. The following is a transcript of the remarkable turn of events: I had a bad night thinking about the failure at Gaza and how my underwear no longer fits right. Seemingly, there is no symbiosis between those two problems, but, in Islam, there is always a dichotomy within which lies true meaning. There is too much dirt, and it is now ground into the fabric of my clothing as I sit here and sleep in these caves,...

In the years following the September 11th 2001 attacks, Osama bin Laden seemed very eager to appear on camera releasing numerous Al Qaeda propaganda videos. For the last 18 months, however, his public messages have been audio only, like the tape posted on the internet Wednesday. Between the threats and the rhetoric on this tape, however, one can also hear that bin Laden is quite short of breath for a man who is just 52 years old, suggesting a possible health issue. "This is the first real indication that we've had of a bin Laden health problem," said John Kiriakou,...

This is a rush transcript from "America's News HQ," December 11, 2008. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. MARTHA MACCALLUM, HOST: Well, an aspect of the Blagojevich story that is getting the microscope today is a rather revealing conference call that took place on November the 11, just several days after the election. In it, Blagojevich, the governor of Illinois, said he wanted financial assistance for his family as payback for making somebody the new senator from Illinois. FOX's Washington deputy managing editor, Bill Sammon, joins me now. There is a treasure trove...

Senior Iraq Defector May Not Have Made It All may not be well for Adib Shaaban, senior aide to Saddam’s powerful son Uday and Iraq’s highest-ranking would-be defector. His attempt to flee to the United States, first revealed exclusively in DEBKA-Net-Weekly 97 (February 14), may not have come off. First a recap: Shaaban -- charged with Uday’s most sensitive missions -- traveled to Jeddah in early February, saying he needed to put through some gold transactions ahead of the war. From Jeddah, he flew to Beirut and disappeared. But he never really went to the Lebanese capital. Instead, he made...

BREAKING: Hear the tapes, sort through the info and post it here.

The tape recording of an interview that Barack Obama gave to Radio Station WBEZ in Chicago in 2001 surfaced, and in that interview Mr. Obama, then a law professor and a state senator, lays out how he would redistribute the wealth. He sounds like a man with a plan. .... Mr. Obama doesn't think much of the Constitution, or even of the Supreme Court justices who have rewritten it over the years to accommodate notions of "social justice." The Warren Court, which wrote finis to public-school segregation with its unanimous Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, has been...

Howie just posted that a Al Qaeda tape is out featuring Adam Gadahn...it is recent as it mentions the resignation of Mushy and the new Pakistani leader Zardari. Link Jawa Report

Osama bin Laden released a new message on Sunday denouncing Arab leaders for sacrificing the Palestinians and saying the head of the Shiite militant group Hezbollah did not really have the strength to take on Israel. In his second audio message in three days focusing on the Palestinians, the al-Qaida leader said the only way to liberate Palestine is to fight the Arab regimes that are protecting Israel. And he called on Muslim militants in Egypt to help break the blockade of Gaza. Bin Laden said Muslims should ignore the Islamic prohibition against raising arms against fellow Muslims, claiming it...

DUBAI, May 18 (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden will issue a "very strong" statement to Muslims across the world soon, an Islamist website said on Sunday. "A very strong statement to the Islamic nation by the lion of Islam sheikh Osama bin Laden," read a banner posted on the al Qaeda-linked website. ~ snip ~

Osama bin Laden released a new message on Sunday accusing Arab leaders of sacrificing the Palestinians and calling on Muslim militants in Egypt to help break the blockade of Gaza. Bin Laden called Arab leaders "agents of the crusaders" and "wolves" in the audio message posted on an Islamic militant Web site where al-Qaida leaders have issued past statements. He portrayed the citizens of Arab nations as herds of sheep who have been handed over to the wolves to look after them. "Every day, the herd wishes the wolves would stop preying on it," he said. "Those (Arab) kings and...

Bin Laden to issue "very strong" message: website Sun May 18, 2008 9:31am EDT DUBAI (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden will issue a "very strong" statement to Muslims across the world soon, an Islamist website said on Sunday. "A very strong statement to the Islamic nation by the lion of Islam sheikh Osama bin Laden," read a banner posted on the al Qaeda-linked website. The website said the statement would be issued "soon", without giving further details. Such messages usually appear within 72 hours. In his latest message, posted on Friday to mark Israel's 60th anniversary, bin Laden vowed to...

An radical jihadist Web site has announced that a new message from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is forthcoming. A banner announcing the message says he will address the 60th anniversary of Israel. His message is titled, "The reasons for the struggle in the remembrance of the 60th anniversary of the rising of the occupier nation of Israel." Developing...

Laden: US seeks to exploit Iraq oil (Agencies) Updated: 2007-12-30 08:41 Dubai - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden accused Washington of plotting to take control of Iraq's oil and urged Iraqis to reject efforts to rebuild a US-backed national unity government. The militant leader also vowed in an audio recording posted on the Internet on Saturday to expand jihad to liberate all Palestinian land and said his group will never recognize Israel. "America seeks, alongside its agents in the region, to create an allied government ... that would accept in advance the presence of major US bases in Iraq...

CAIRO, Egypt - Osama bin Laden warned Iraq's Sunni Arabs against joining tribal councils fighting al-Qaida or participating in any unity government, in a new Internet audiotape on Saturday. "The most evil of the traitors are those who trade away their religion for the sake of their mortal life," bin Laden said in the tape. He denounced Abdul-Sattar Abu Risha, the leader of the Anbar Awakening Council, a tribal force fighting al-Qaida in western Iraq, who was killed in a bombing in September. Bin Laden said U.S. and Iraqi officials are seeking to set up a "national unity government" joining...

No details yet of the speech content (or any info as to what he looks like on the video). Appears to be a rha-rah speech aimed at uniting terror factions in the "Islamic State of Iraq"

CAIRO, Egypt - Osama bin Laden warned Iraq's Sunni Arabs against fighting al-Qaida and promised to expand the terror group's holy war to Israel in a new audiotape Saturday, threatening "blood for blood, destruction for destruction." Most of the 56-minute tape dealt with Iraq, apparently al-Qaida's latest attempt to keep supporters in Iraq unified at a time when the U.S. military claims to have al-Qaida's Iraq branch on the run. The tape did not mention Pakistan or the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, though Pakistan's government has blamed al-Qaida and the Taliban for her death on Thursday. But bin Laden's comments...

Broadcast Of New Bin Laden Message Updated:18:35, Thursday November 29, 2007 A new message purportedly from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden calls on European countries to end military cooperation with the US in Afghanistan. "The American tide is ebbing, so it is best for you to press your leaders to change their policies," bin Laden said, addressing Europeans and referring to their countries' military contributions in Afghanistan. Al Jazeera television broadcast two short excerpts of an audiotape. Bin Laden said his Taliban allies had no knowledge of plans for the September 11 terror attacks in the US in 2001...

Bronxville, N.Y. - In yet another sign of trouble for Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden publicly conceded that his like-minded militants in Iraq "made mistakes." In an audiotape broadcast by Al Jazeera this week, he sounds deeply anxious about the survival of Al Qaeda in Iraq – a group that is largely independent of his own organization but adheres to a similar ideology. Al Qaeda's top leader appealed to Sunni Arab tribes and other armed Iraqi Sunni groups to stop fighting Al Qaeda members and unite against the real enemy – the US-led coalition. Al Qaeda in Iraq faces growing...

CAIRO, Egypt -- Al-Qaida sympathizers have unleashed a torrent of anger against Al-Jazeera television, accusing it of misrepresenting Osama bin Laden's latest audiotape by airing excerpts in which he criticizes mistakes by insurgents in Iraq. Users of a leading Islamic militant Web forum posted thousands of insults against the pan-Arab station for focusing on excerpts in which bin Laden criticizes insurgents, including his followers.

U.S. officials are taking a close look at the latest audiotape of al-Qaida's second-in-command to see if it contains a coded message to launch a terrorist attack. The tape of Ayman al Zawahri was posted Wednesday on the Internet, and ABCNews.com says one phrase is repeated three times at the end: Have I not conveyed? Oh God be my witness. Have I not conveyed? Oh God be my witness. Story Continues Below Have I not conveyed? Oh God be my witness. An FBI analysis of al-Qaida messages, obtained by ABCNews.com, warns that "continued messages that convey their strategic intent to...

Somalis wary of 'Bin Laden' tape Bin Laden was giving an opinion, the Somali leader said The powerful Islamist movement in Somalia has distanced itself from comments about Somalia attributed to al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. An internet audio recording warned the West not to send troops to Somalia. But a leader of the Union of Islamic Courts, which has taken control of the capital, Mogadishu, said they did not rely on any outside group. The US has accused one Islamic leader, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, of links to al-Qaeda and involvement with terror. Mr Aweys denies the US allegations,...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- The hard-line Muslim leaders who control much of southern Somalia claimed nationwide authority, while the latest message attributed to al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden describes the Horn of Africa nation as a battleground in his global war on the U.S. Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, leader of the militia's executive council, made the claim of authority throughout the country Thursday, striking yet another blow to Somalia's largely powerless but internationally recognized interim government.

SITE Institute: Usama bin Laden, the Emir of al-Qaeda, Speaks Regarding the Martyrdom of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, in an Audio Speech Issued by as-SahabLaura Mansfield: The new Bin Laden tape regarding the death of Zarqawi has just been released on the internet. Audio tape over split screen with still photo of Bin Laden on one side and video of Zarqawi on other side. Can be downloaded at http://www.lauramansfied.com/cso.rm

WASHINGTON -- A U.S. Army commander asserted Tuesday that extremist fighters in northern Iraq committed atrocities against civilians, including beheadings, torture and the booby-trapping of a murdered child's body. "The enemy here did just the most horrible things you can imagine _ in one case murdering a child, placing a booby trap within the child's body and waiting for the parent to come recover the body of their child and exploding it to kill the parents; beheadings and so forth," McMaster said in an interview from Tal Afar with reporters at the Pentagon. His comments came two days after the...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden said Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person convicted in a U.S. court for the September 11 attacks, had nothing to do with the operations, according to a Web site audiotape released on Tuesday. Bin Laden said he had personally assigned tasks to the 19 hijackers who staged the attacks on U.S. cities which killed about 3,000 people. "The truth is that he has no connection whatsoever with the events of September 11. I am certain of what I say because I was responsible for entrusting the 19 brothers ... with the raids," said the speaker...

THE voice of Osama bin Laden was heard across the world again yesterday with the broadcast of a new tape in which he sought to link al-Qaeda with both Palestinian militants and the brutal civil war in Sudan.In his first message for three months, bin Laden said that the West’s decision to cut off funds to the Hamas-controlled Palestinian Authority proved that it was conducting “a Zionist crusader war on Islam�. He also spoke about the Darfur crisis in Sudan, which has caused 180,000 deaths, calling on “holy warriors� to defend Islam and “prepare for a long war� against a...

The following is an edited translation of an audiotape attributed to al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, parts of which were aired by Aljazeera on April 23, 2006. (It is not known where or when the recording was made.) [S's note: edited, but much longer than other places released.) Praise be to Allah, Lord of the world, prayer and peace be upon our prophet Muhammad, his kin and all his companions. Peace, Allah's mercy and blessing be upon you, as I am directing this speech to all the Islamic Umma, to continue talking and urging them to support our prophet Muhammad,...

Al-Qaida terrorist leader Osama bin Laden said in an audio tape broadcast by Al-Jazeera television Sunday that the Western cut off of funds to the Palestinian Hamas-led government proved the US and Europe were at war with Islam. "The blockade which the West is imposing on the Hamas government proves that there is a Zionist crusader war on Islam," the tape said. "I say that this war is the joint responsibility of the people and the governments. While the war continues, the people renew their allegiance to their rulers and politicians and continue to send their sons to our countries...

Kerry calls for Rumsfeld's resignation after new 'Bin Laden' tape Washington - US Senator John Kerry on Sunday called on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign following the airing of a new recording attributed to fugitive al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden slipped past US troops from his hideout in the Tora Bora area of Afghanistan in late 2001 because Rumsfeld had not committed enough troops to finding him, Kerry, the Democratic Party candidate in the 2004 presidential election, told ABC television. The failure to catch the al-Qaeda head on that occasion was one of the biggest catastrophes...

Osama bin Laden issued new threats in an audiotape broadcast on Arab television Sunday and accused the United States and Europe of supporting a "Zionist" war on Islam by cutting off funds to the Hamas-led Palestinian government. He also urged followers to go to Sudan, his former base, to fight a proposed U.N. peacekeeping force. His words, the first new message by the al-Qaida leader in three months, seemed designed to justify potential attacks on civilians — something al-Qaida has been criticized for even by its Arab supporters. He also appeared to be trying to drum up support among Arabs...

WASHINGTON, April 24 — A new audiotape believed to be from Osama bin Laden urges militants to travel to Sudan to fight a proposed United Nations force for Darfur, and accuses the United States and its European allies of waging "a Zionist-crusader war on Islam." The speaker on the tape also calls for a worldwide Muslim boycott of American products, apparently based on the boycott of Danish goods that followed a Danish newspaper's publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. There was no immediate American confirmation of the authenticity of the tape, played today by the Arab satellite television network...

Alleged Bin Laden Tape: U.S. at War With Islam Sunday , April 23, 2006 CAIRO, Egypt — Usama bin Laden issued ominous new threats in an audiotape broadcast Sunday, saying the West was at war with Islam and calling on his followers to go to Sudan to fight a proposed U.N. force. In his first new message in three months, bin Laden said the West's decision to cut off funds to the Palestinians because their Hamas leaders refuse to recognize Israel proved that the United States and Europe were conducting "a Zionist crusader war on Islam." "The blockade which the...

unday April 23, 2006 A new audiotape from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden will be aired today on the Arabic news station al Jazeera, the organisation claims.More follows . .

CAIRO, Egypt - Osama bin Laden promised never to be captured alive and declared the U.S. had resorted to the same “repressive” tactics used by Saddam Hussein, according to an audiotape purportedly by the al-Qaida leader that was posted Monday on a militant Web site.

CAIRO, Egypt - Osama bin Laden promised never to be captured alive and declared the U.S. had resorted to the same "barbaric" tactics used by Saddam Hussein, according to an audiotape purportedly by the al-Qaida leader posted Monday on a militant Web site. The tape appeared to be a complete version of one that was first broadcast Jan. 19 on Al-Jazeera, the pan-Arab satellite channel, in which bin Laden offered the United States a long-term truce but also said his al-Qaida terror network would soon launch a fresh attack on American soil. "I have sworn to only live free. Even...

According to terrorism experts, the most recent video is part of a pattern, according to Cybercast News Service. Christopher Brown, who in the past has briefed Department of Defense, State Department, CIA, National Security Council and the White House, noted each Zawahiri video is part of a pair. And after the 2nd part is released, historically, it was followed

An audio recording appeared today on a radical Islamist Web site, featuring what appeared to be Osama bin Laden's top deputy, Ayman al Zawahari, discussing the writings of a Muslim poet. The tape surfaced a week after a U.S. airstrike in Pakistan that killed a top al Qaeda bomb maker and chemical weapons expert, but the speaker does not mention the incident. Analysts say that's potentially revealing because it calls into question Al Qaeda's ability to respond quickly in its propaganda war. The tape appears to be an old recording, as it refers to the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan in...

(CBS) CAIRO, Egypt An audiotape purportedly from al Qaeda deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was posted Friday on an Islamic Web site in which he read a poem praising "martyrs of holy war" in Afghanistan, Palestine and elsewhere. There was no indication of when the tape was made. The tape made no mention of a Jan. 13 U.S. airstrike in Pakistan that was targeting al-Zawahiri and killed four al Qaeda leaders. Al-Zawahiri was not believed to have been among those killed. If the tape is new and authentic, it would be the first statement by the al Qaeda deputy since the...

<p>With no mention of last week's attempt on his life, Ayman al-Zawahiri recited poetry to jihadists on a 17-minute audiotape that appeared on the Internet on Friday.</p> <p>Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant was the target of a January 13 CIA airstrike on a home in Damadola, Pakistan, where al Qaeda members were believed to be attending a dinner.</p>

Zawahiri déclame an elegy with the "martyrs" of the jihad in Afghanistan PARIS - the number two of the network Al-Qaïda, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, déclame a long elegiac poem dedicated to the "martyrs" of the jihad in Afghanistan, in a sound recording put in line Friday, a few days after an attack which would have aimed it to Pakistan. The audio band, of almost 18 minutes, does not comprise any indication on the date of the registration of the voice allotted to the assistant of Usama Bin Laden. The islamist site specifies however that it acts of "un new speech...

A new audio tape purportedly from Osama Bin Laden has been broadcast as an exclusive on al-Jazeera, the Arab TV station that first made its name by showing al-Qaeda messages before and after 9/11. It is the first new tape said to carry the voice of the al-Qaeda leader for just over a year. During that time, two other figures have taken Osama Bin Laden's place as the leading voices of radical Islamic militancy. They are al-Qaeda's number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and the Islamic militant leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Both have released communications this month and both have...

CAIRO, Egypt -- U.S. counterterror officials said Thursday they have seen no specific or credible intelligence to indicate an upcoming al-Qaida attack on the country, despite a new audio tape claiming preparations for such a mission. The United States will not let up in the war on terror despite the threats on the tape, purportedly made by Osama bin Laden, said White House press secretary Scott McClellan. "We do not negotiate with terrorists," McClellan said. "We put them out of business." While warning against downplaying the taped threat, officials at intelligence and law enforcement agencies said there has been no...

WASHINGTON (AP) The CIA has authenticated the voice on a tape played by al-Jazeera as Osama bin Laden, an agency official said.

Bin Laden in New Audiocassette: Makes a Promise in Advance to Accept and Uphold A Long-Term Truce [if America Offers it To Him] & At the Same Time Threatens New Attacks in the U.S. On January 19, 2006, Al-Jazeera TV broadcast excerpts from a new audiocassette by Osama bin Laden, in which the Al-Qaeda leader threatens further attacks on the U.S., "immediately with the completion of the preparations.” At the same time, bin Laden makes a plea to accept and uphold a long term truce under fair conditions [if America offers it to him], which will provide security and stability...

From trackingalqueda.blogspot.com: 3 seperate posts just went up at one of the jihadi forums. 2 of them are below: At this link (the translation of the posting for this link are not here) you will find multiple places to download the new audio. http://www.tajdeed.org.uk/forums/showthread.php?&threadid=36617 link: http://www.tajdeed.org.uk/forums/showthread.php?&threadid=36624 Sheikh Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi and invitation of Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdul Wahab To speech Sheikh of the militant listened for Musab Al-Zarqawi kept him Allah fulfilled him praise from him on Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdul Wahab have mercy him Allah mouth see me from Sheikh stabs in his invitation fulfilled. Describing his in the...

WASHINGTON (AP) - In a phone call between President Nixon and the man who would become "Deep Throat," the president instructed FBI official Mark Felt to aggressively pursue the case against the gunman who shot George Wallace. There must be no public suspicion of a cover-up, Nixon said, in the wounding of the Alabama governor who was then running for president. The May 15, 1972, phone call is believed to be the only tape-recorded conversation between Nixon and Felt, the No. 2 FBI official. Nixon expressed satisfaction when Felt told him the suspect had some cuts and bruises. "I hope...

Per Foxnews Alert. Al-Zarqawi said "I am injured. But am working on a blueprint for Osama Bin Laden" He's awaiting orders from Bin Laden.