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.
just spent a few minutes on the DU boards... until I couldn't see any longer due to the tears of laughter filling my eyes!
My God... LOL What a bunch of tinfoil hat-wearing, uneducated, illogical, incoherent, unsophisticated, irrational, whining, over/undermedicated mouth-breathing idiots!
Probably. But I suppose it's also possible that he's covering all the pr bases before hitting us with something unconventional. As in, "I didn't want to release that chemical in that shopping mall. I even offered them a truce. But they refused."
Friday
The day in honor of the Norse goddess Frigg.
oh man.. is that why nothing gets done?
Bin Laden gets enormous help from his allies-of-convenience, the traitorous democrat party and their media agents, especially the NY Times.
When the next attack comes, the blood of innocent Americans will once again be on the democrat party's evil hands.
US to OBL/AQ: "Nuts"
I am pretty sure they involve saying "There is no God but Allah", three times in public.
Osama = Skinner?
Howard Dean-Laden
Osama Bin-Gore
Ayman Al-Pelosi
good job, comrades.
I agree with your point, but the word is 'kuffar'. 'Kaffir' is an Afrikaans racial epithet. :)
Kerry and Jessee Jackson are on their way to Paris right now to commence the peace talks with the AQ "heads of state"
Let me tell you where you can shove that truce, Binny-boy....
I think Osama lurks on DU.Aha! That's where he's been hiding all of this time!
Hmmm.. maybe we did get al Zawahri in Pak, or at least some heavyweights.. the overall damage between what we have done in Pak, Iraq and elsewhere really must be taking a toll.. thats how I see this tape if in fact it's really from the Devil himself. Bin laden can go back to hell and we will send him there, that's the truth and the truce.
Maybe you should do more research and I'll have the duck with the mango salsa.
One big difference between Bin Laden and the libs is that Bin Laden acknowledges that we are, indeed, at war. Any guesses on how many in MSM comment on this acknowledgement and the fact that there can be no "truce" if there is no war?
Probably the latter, since it sounds like the recording was made in December. The missile strike's an added bonus.
By the way, will you be in DC for the March for Life (Jan 22-23)?
Unfortunately, no. I haven't been in a few years since my wife works at night and my kids are young. Hopefully we'll be bringing the kids down in a few years.
I might have been overreacting a tad...
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