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.
Osama, you can kiss my royal German ass!
My bet is on our capture of the Z-man. That is why the 'press' releases say he 'was not there'...'not dead'..not 'killed'..etc. He is listening to Barney 'love songs' at Gitmo...lol
"...but said the group was open to a conditional truce with Americans..."
Haha. No chance of a truce, dirtbag.
Not even a surrender.
Sounds to me like Al Qowards is feeling the heat.
Your story is true but Ollie didn't say Osama Bin Laden, he said Abu Nidal, who by the way was killed in Iraq by Sadaam's forces in the run-up to the current war.
"next we will see osama has accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and savior"
At which point we will accept his truce.
...where they learn to die.
Patton once said that you dont win wars by dying for your country, you win it by making the other poor dumb batsard die for his country.
"You and your associates will surrender to the United States at our embassy in either Kabul or Islamobad. In exchange for full cooperation in apprehending other terrorists, you will receive the following choice: death by hanging or spending the rest of your life locked in a room with a menu of your choice and a tv monitor that shows Algore's Current TV 24/7. Should you not cooperate, you will receive the latter."
Hey, you can not offer that. We Americans don't believe in torture.
"...and the white horse you rode in on!"
"I offer a truce to them (Europe) with a commitment to stop operations against any state which vows to stop attacking Muslims or interfere in their affairs. The announcement of the truce starts with the withdrawal of the last soldier from our land and the door is open for three months from the date of the announcement of this statement"
http://www.jeddah.4t.com/news/2004apr/15_2.htm
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NEVER FORGET
Truce in Islam =
10 years only.
Taken ONLY when it benefits Islam and is detrimental to the "Evil" infidels (US)
NEVER FORGET
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"Nuts".
To coin a phrase.
Karl Rove was on WMAL this AM and was asked about the "truce" offer. He laughed and said sure, we would be happy to invite him to DC for "peace talks", we'll send an aircraft to pick him up him anytime/anywhere for transport to the US to begin "negotiations" re the truce. LMAO.
Well...If you change the letters around a bit in the word, truce, you get, turce(turkey). Now, is he calling us names? I'm telling the teacher on him...
And finally, Osama concluded with a statement that could have easily been faxed over from the Democratic National Committee: "So you see how Bush was misleading people. The opinion polls are for the pull out and it's important that opinion polls say the people didn't want to fight the Muslims in their land and they didn't want the Muslims to fight them in their land." At least now we know where the left is getting their talking points.
The whole point of this claim to honesty is this: Muslims listening to Osama might wonder if he seriously seeks peace, or if his "hudna" is tactical and temporary, as (in)famously in the case with Muhammad (as told in the Koran). By putting in this claim to honesty -- which is self-evidently false to his followers, who know that lies and treachery are acceptable with nonbelievers, especially in war -- he has made clear that he plans such treachery, when his currently weak situation improves.
As if sane men could think otherwise.
Obbie is polishing his image, in the footsteps of Arafat, to evolve into the elder terrorist statesman so he can sit and chat with Hillary in the rose garden during her second semester. Time will make him man of the year. He will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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