DEBKAfile is first out with Bin Laden message due for broadcast over al Jazeera Tuesday night.

DEBKAfile ^ | Tuesday, February 11, 2003

[Mossad1967]

Those who did not understand the message I sent in New York and Washington after your previous crimes, and because you are about to attack (he did not say whom), in the name of Allah, I will strike”

[hispanarepublicana]

I will strike

Bin Laden is a Union member! I knew it!

[dennis1x]

so Binny aint dead, but his videocameras are all broke.....now i understand.

BIN LADEN IS DEAD.

[JennysCool]

Ha! Post of the day!

[Mossad1967]

I have a feeling that a new video will be released after the next attacks!

[clintonh8r]

DEAD MAN TALKING

[Sender]

I can just picture terrorists everywhere, picketing with signs, chanting "hey hey, ho ho, war on terror has to go"

[swarthyguy]

Doesn't matter if he's dead or not. This is for his minions; inspiration and marching orders, perhaps?

[Trampled by Lambs]

Does anyone think this is a sort of setup? That Osama *wants* us to attack so is providing fuel for the fire? I think its possible because the unrest caused by the attack could benefit him.

If Osama is in partnership with Saddam, why would he announce it when Saddam denies it? That doesn't sound like a good partner to me.

[OneLoyalAmerican]

Greetings Mossad1967, FReepers, et al:
Wow, now I understand why everyone is so tense.

Saturday night, February 8, in the Iraqi-Kurdish city of Suleimaniyeh, al Qaeda and Iraqi military intelligence fired their first shot of the US-Iraq war - by assassination. They used their shared surrogate, the extremist Kurdish Ansar al-Islam of northeast Iraq, to eliminate the top command of the pro-American Patriotic Union of Iraqi Kurdistan’s fighting militia.
The three-way collaboration between Baghdad, al Qaeda and the Kurdish fundamentalist terrorists provided a live and incontrovertible smoking gun. The price was heavy, a grave setback for US war plans.
DEBKAfile’s military analysts compare the murders to the assassination of the Afghan Northern Alliance commander Shah Massoud two days before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.