Osama is at it again. Now he thinks he can order the Europeans around…
Bethesda, 25 Sept. (AKI) – Al-Qaeda number-one Osama Bin Laden has purportedly called on European nations to end their alliance with the United States and withdraw their troops from war-wracked Afghanistan, according to the US-based SITE Intelligence Group monitoring service.
Bin Laden made the appeal in a new audio message posted to jihadist forums on 25 Sept., SITE reported. The message has not been authenticated.
“An intelligent man doesn’t waste his money and sons for a gang of criminals in Washington,” the US-based SITE on Friday quoted Bin Laden as saying in the message.
“[...] And it is a shameful thing for a person to be in a coalition whose supreme commander has no regard for human life and intentionally bombs villagers from the air.”
The audio message is contained in a 4 minute, 47 second video produced by Al-Qaeda’s media arm, As-Sahab, and shows only a still image of Bin Laden. English- and German-language subtitled versions of the video were posted, SITE said.
Bin Laden warned Al-Qaeda would retaliate “from the oppressor on behalf of the oppressed,” according to SITE.
If European could see what “your American ally and his helpers” did in Afghanistan, they would better understand the July 2007 attacks in London and the March 2004 attacks against Madrid, Bin Laden states.
Earlier this week, Al-Qaeda’s second in command Ayman al-Zawahiri issued a new video threat to US president Barack Obama that was posted to militant websites. “Your end will be at the hands of the Muslim nation,” al-Zawahiri said in the video, which issued fresh calls for Muslims to wage holy war or Jihad.
The 106-minute video recorded in Arabic was released to mark the eighth anniversary of Al-Qaeda’s ‘9/11′ attacks and featured al-Zawahiri and footage of a US soldier captured in Afghanistan.
Al-Qaeda has issues a series of threats ahead of Germany’s general election on Sunday.
In the past week several German-language videos by suspected Al-Qaeda members have surfaced in what the German government said on Friday was an “abstract threat” against the country.
A 10-minute long message entitled “A statement to the American people” posted to jihadist webites last week by Al-Qaeda’s media arm, As-Sahab , showed an undated still image of Bin Laden but no video.
The audio message surfaced only two days after the eighth anniversary of the ‘9/11′ attacks.
The message blamed US support for Israel as the reason for Al-Qaeda’s attacks against American cities on 11 September 2001.
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