New Osama bin Laden Tape is out Pledging to Fight Jewish State and Western Powers

Palestinian Cause Prompted 9/11
Friday, May 16, 2008

CBSNews.com brings us this report this morning and it goes in part like this... Al Qaeda's media operation has released a new audio message on the Internet from Osama bin Laden, dealing primarily with Israel and the Palestinians on the 60th anniversary of Israel's creation. ...Bin Laden began his message by telling listeners that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has always been the primary cause for friction between the West and the Muslim world - a struggle which he said was getting more difficult due to European policies biased in Israel's favor... "The Palestinian cause has been the main factor that, since my early childhood, fueled my desire, and that of the 19 freemen (Sept. 11 bombers), to stand by the oppressed, and punish the oppressive Jews and their allies," the al Qaeda chief said...
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Bin Laden: Palestinian Cause Prompted 9/11

* ABC News website has this take...
New Bin Laden Tape: Who Cares?
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New Audio-Tape Message Out Purportedly From Osama bin Laden

Telegraph.co.uk brings us this story and it starts off like this... Osama bin Laden last night urged European countries to leave Afghanistan and reiterated that he had presided over the September 11 attacks...
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Osama bin Laden issues European diktat

>>> The Times Of India website reports...
Osama bin Laden urges Europe to quit Afghanistan

>>> LauraMansfield.com has this take...
Paraphrasing Bin Laden: "The Afghans didn't do 9/11 so leave them alone; it was my idea"

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