Having reviewed the transcript posted by TT (thanks Fullwave), one thing stands out loud and clear. OBL is laying out his 'legal' justification for the 911 attacks as well as maintaining the right to conduct additional attacks because his 'legal' points are still valid. Secondly, although he is careful to point to US 'policies' and not single out either candidate, he is making it clear by inference that he does not want Bush re-elected. Finally, there is some ambiguity as to whether or not the attack will occur PRIOR to the election. Same as with yesterday's video. Seems that they want Bush defeated and if he is reelected, retribution may follow quickly after the election. It seems both videos are giving the American people an ultimatium - If they vote for Bush, they are voting for a terror attack.
"although he is careful to point to US 'policies' and not single out either candidate,"
You have excellent observations, but in this case, you overlooked Bin Laden's several very specific mentions of Bush, blaming him personally:
"And free people don't let go of their security, contrary to Bush's claims that we hate freedom.
Bush is still practicing distortion and misleading on you, and obscuring the main reasons and, therefore, the reasons are still existing to repeat what happened before.
We didn't find difficulty dealing with Bush and his administration due to the similarity of his regime and the regimes in our countries.
...the greediness and taking money without right and that similarity appeared during the visits of Bush to the region
Before Bush and his administration would pay attention"
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41192
Any conspiracy theories going on why now of all times these 2 tapes were released? Who is behind them?