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The envelope containing terror mastermind Osama bin Laden's latest message to the world was dropped into a mailbox in an upscale neighborhood of the Pakistani capital, the second purported al Qaeda video to come out of this nation in a little more than a week. Officials cautioned yesterday that release of the tape to the Islamabad office of Arabic television channel Al Jazeera does not prove that bin Laden is in Pakistan. Nonetheless, its appearance was an embarrassment to Pakistan, which bills itself as a key ally in Washington's war on terrorism and has spent months focusing its troops on...

swissinfo February 12, 2003 4:34 PM Swiss researchers who last November analysed a tape attributed to Osama bin Laden say they won’t be scrutinising the latest recording broadcast by the Arabic television network, Al-Jazeera. The Swiss analysts said the previous tape was almost certainly faked, despite US claims to the contrary. The Dalle Molle Institute for Perceptual Artificial Intelligence (Idiap) in Martigny told swissinfo on Wednesday that it had no intention of analysing the latest tape. United States officials say the recording, which calls on Muslims to fight the US and repel a war against Iraq, is “probably” the voice...