Posted on 09/14/2009 10:23:01 AM PDT by 444Flyer
CAIRO (AP) - Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden described President Barack Obama as "powerless" to stop the war in Afghanistan and threatened to step up guerrilla warfare there in a new audiotape released to mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States. In the 11-minute tape, addressed to the American people, bin Laden said Obama is only following the warlike policies of his predecessor George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney and he urged Americans to "liberate" themselves from the influence of "neo-conservatives and the Israeli lobby."
The tape was posted on Islamic militant Web sites two days after the eighth anniversary of the 2001 suicide plane hijackings. The terror leader usually addresses Americans in a message timed around the date of the attacks, which sparked the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan the same year, and then in Iraq two years later.
Bin Laden said Americans had failed to understand that al-Qaida carried out the attacks in retaliation for U.S. support for Israel. If America reconsiders its alliance with the Jewish state, al-Qaida will respond on "sound and just bases."
The Saudi construction magnate's son-turned "holy warrior" and his deputies have frequently sought to wrap al-Qaida in the Palestinian cause, seeking to draw support in the Arab world, where the issue is one of the public's top concerns.
Al-Qaida has also sought to depict Obama as no different from Bush, who was widely despised in the Arab world for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and his close support of Israel. Obama has won greater popularity in the region, giving a landmark speech in Cairo in June, moving to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq and taking a somewhat harder stance on Israel in the peace process.
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Did they hire Rich Little to do the voice?
Funny how the press doesn't call him racist.
Only after you convinced some men to kill a bunch of people on 9/11.
And doesn't it suck that you have to hide in a cave nowadays?
Our Commander in Chief has no idea what to do in these two wars. This must make our military very nervous. I’m amazed that they even follow his orders.
Bin Dedan?
I didn’t know ghosts could speak.
Did ACORN help OBL lie about his job to get a US subsidized rock to hide under?
Why does anyone listen to these audiotapes?
If there is no video of Osama holding a recent newspaper, then I am not interested.
We have not seen a video of this clown since the fall of 2001.
Eight years of trotting out audiotapes, when digital cameras abound and every cell phone has a camera. Riiiiight.
He’s dead, Jim.
Dueling Muslims.
To his credit, Obama has left the Bush military relatively in tact (I think its because Obama didn’t know what else to do). This has got him through the first six months. However, war is fluid. If you aren’t able to change strategies, you lose.
Obama doesn’t have a clue about the military or how to lead it to the next step. To Obama’s discredit, he is projecting weakness by being so removed from the military. Thus Bin Laden senses weakness in Obama and seeks to exploit it.
A lot of soldiers are going to die because of Obama.
“I didn’t know ghosts could speak.”
“..”If you end the war (in Afghanistan), so let it be,” bin Laden said. “But if it is otherwise, all we will do is continue the war of attrition against you on all possible axes.”
“You are waging a hopeless and losing war for the benefit of others, a war the end of which is not visible on the horizon,” he said, according to a translation of the tape...”
The Dude’s mellowed with ‘age’ man...
Ted Kennedy does.
US Military = Hammer
Jihadists = raw material to be flattened.
Well, he'd never get hired by the MSM as a political commentator, would he?
Thank you.
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