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Bin Laden Releases Another Tape

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Posted on Apr 23, 2006

This time he’s railing against the U.S. for cutting off aid to the Hamas-led Palestinian government.


CNN:

Parts of an audiotape purportedly from Osama bin Laden aired Sunday on an Arabic-language TV network in which the al Qaeda leader attacks the West for cutting off funds to the Palestinian Hamas-led government and referred to a “crusader-Zionist war” against Islam.

Al-Jazeera, which is based in Qatar, said the new tape is from bin Laden. CNN could not immediately confirm the tape’s authenticity, but analysts said the voice sounds like bin Laden’s and the language is consistent with his manner of speaking on previous tapes.

A U.S. intelligence official said technical analysis of the tape is under way. (CNN analyst Peter Bergen: Bin Laden wants to show he’s still influential.)

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By Ga, April 24, 2006 at 10:22 am Link to this comment
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All extreme self-righteous fanatics drive by their religious faith share similar traits.

bin Laden and Bush are very similar in their religious faith, both thinking that they are the ones to save their people from the evils of the other.

The parallelisms in their speeches should be obvious. It’s only that their followers, those with similar faiths and belief systems, believe only in the one and not in the other and fail to see anything wrong with their leaders. This is called “blind faith.”

Those who believe in their faith as the one and true faith, and that those of all other faiths and of no faith are evil, are the fuels for the fires of both Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush and Adolf Hitler and all the rest. (“Faith” being not entirely religious in nature, but also philosophically.)

If evil were defined solely as “the direct or indirect causing of the deaths of other humans” then George W. Bush is just as evil as the rest of them.

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By WOM, April 23, 2006 at 3:40 pm Link to this comment
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Bin Laden is a lunatic. Why would anybody in their right minds avert from a life of comfort and wealth to go and be chased out of caves in remote areas of the world? That’s insanity. This video proves nothing but the fact he’s still active. All his rhetoric is pointless since he says the same thing over and over again with alterations here and there. I condemn this man and the actions that he and his followers have committed over the past two decades.

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By Red Ruffian, April 23, 2006 at 10:50 am Link to this comment
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I see Bush’s most reliable political partner has surfaced again! He must be sinking faster in the polls than the Titanic hit bottom. Osama is trying to scare Americans again into loving Bush. Boo!

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By Steve, April 23, 2006 at 9:58 am Link to this comment
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why on earth don’t we just stop annoying him and his people so we can live in peace! we act like experts and give ourselves the right to control them and go to their countries and afterwards he respondes and we start crying!!

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