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Possible New Message From Osama Bin Laden

July 14, 2007 3:37 PM

Possiblenewme_mn A brief clip of an older-looking Osama bin Laden is contained in a new al Qaeda videotape praising al Qaeda martyrs posted on jihadi Web sites early this morning.

Experts who study al Qaeda videos told ABC News they had not previously seen the clip of bin Laden, which was released with little fanfare and contains no date references, but say it is most likely an unreleased portion of an earlier message.

The al Qaeda leader speaks of martyrdom for roughly one minute as he addresses an unseen group in a mountainous location, wearing fatigues, a watch and ring, and with extensive gray in his beard.

Video  Watch the New, Previously Unseen Video of Al Qaeda's Head.

The clip is part of a 40-minute film "Scent of Heaven" from al Qaeda's as Sahab video propaganda arm discovered on the Internet by Laura Mansfield of Strategic Translations. The tape commemorates seven men who were killed and which are termed "martyrs" in the video.  As clear from their aliases, they come from Pakistan, Morocco, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Saudi Arabia.

In the clip, bin Laden talks about martyrdom as he refers to the prophet Mohammad.

"He wished to become a martyr," bin Laden says of Mohammad, before quoting a hadith (prophet saying). 

"By Him, in Whose hand Mohammad's soul is, I would've liked to raid and be killed, then raid and be killed, then raid and be killed," he says.

This post has been updated. 

Do you have a tip for Brian Ross and the Investigative Team?

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By the way why isn't anyone questioning ABC's complicity here? Why are they promoting and giving veracity to this crap? Why aren't they telling the TRUTH??? Who's pocket is Brian Ross in?

I bet this doesn't get posted...

Posted by: Shoes4Industry | Jul 14, 2007 5:06:19 PM

I have not read more crap in my life than that written above by these leftists. Absolutely rubbish!

Posted by: Pseudonym | Jul 14, 2007 4:58:59 PM

Who are you calling "Lefty" moron??

Posted by: Shoes4Industry | Jul 14, 2007 5:07:48 PM

What a bunch of Nut jobs,

Fred Thompson in '08.

Posted by: Dan | Jul 14, 2007 5:09:43 PM

While many of us do not agree with the current administrations foreign policy, it is counter productive to continue to push the ridiculous theory that Bush and Cheney orchestrated 9-11. I think Bush would have difficulty organizing a monkey crap fight at the zoo, much less a plan as well exexcuted as 9-11. When people keep pushing the Bush Cheney planned 9-11 theory, they lose credibility for the rest of their ideas.

Posted by: Chuck | Jul 14, 2007 5:10:22 PM

You know, liberals, sometimes a horse is just a horse. OBL DID do 9-11, otherwise WHY CLAIM RESPONSIBLITY for it and lose EVERYTHING including the Nation State they were working out of? Man, some people really ARE stuck on Stupid.

Posted by: Danae | Jul 14, 2007 5:11:10 PM

Pseudonym, you should read more. Wait until you come to and stumble on the dreck from the people who have been making excuses for Iraq for the last decade. Unbelievable!

Posted by: skeptic | Jul 14, 2007 5:11:32 PM

Those who think that our want to put the blame for what the fundamentalists do upon the feet of the American government as as stupidly blind as the fundamentialists themselves who think that the leftist liberals are going to prevent the leaders of this free nation from doing all it can to destroy not only Osama but all of those that oppose freedom and liberty.

Posted by: Michael | Jul 14, 2007 5:12:56 PM

Wait one minute. He can look like this. He has been on the run for years. He should look like a starving child.

Posted by: Please_Stop | Jul 14, 2007 5:13:11 PM

Janie,

Your confusing al-Qaeda with the Northern Alliance. We never gave any money to al-Qaeda nor did we train them.

Posted by: bnelson44

That's because Al Qaeda DID NOT EXIST
until the Neo Cons created them.

Posted by: Shoes4Industry | Jul 14, 2007 5:13:32 PM

Do you see that slither of mountain in the left bottom corner?
The CIA has all the mountian ranges in that area of Pakistan and Afghanistan in their computers and already know the location of this picture.
OBL has been dead for years!
We bombed his little cave years ago.
The guy in the picture isn't even a look a like for OBL.
Oh yeah you moron liberals get out of Iraq and watch the iranians, turks and russia and china fight over the remnants of iraq.

Posted by: MaximusDelta | Jul 14, 2007 5:14:11 PM

No wait, George Bush is Davey Crockett is Betty Crocker is Larry Bud Melman is Bruce Mehlman is Mighty Mouse is Randy House is Akmad de Soto is Coupe de Ville is Will Smith is Berry Smith is John Kerry is Kerry Davidson is David and Goliath is Amp Persand is Sands O'Time is Harry David is Hare Brained is you. Conspiracy indeed. Michael Moore did it in the kitchen with his mouth. 'Nuff sayeed.

Posted by: Joey | Jul 14, 2007 5:14:14 PM

I heard he is just back from Florida where he has spent the last few years as a real estate flipper.

Posted by: Trelane | Jul 14, 2007 5:14:30 PM

All the conspiracy theorist above have one thing in common: they are people who have a need to be controlled by those who have a need to control. Wake up and join the same human race. Yes there is politics in washington but there is a professional credible effort going on behind the scenes to stop this cancer called Al Qaede by our military and many other leaders around the world. Even if a democrate is elected in 08 and runs on a platform to end the war they will not. They know what's at stake, world peace.

Posted by: Brett | Jul 14, 2007 5:14:43 PM

You tin foil hat-wearing, Bush-hating, conspiracy zealots may have finally gone over the edge. Keep it up and you'll lose another election soon enough.

Posted by: iamaneocon | Jul 14, 2007 5:15:10 PM

Wow, reading the posts on these ABC blogs is very depressing. There are so many sick, delusional people in our country. I can't believe people believe the crap that Shoes4Industry spews out. I am curious, did the American government blow up the Embassies in Africa and the USS Cole..? How about the World Trade Center in the early 1990s?

Posted by: LaughingAtTheLeftWhackos | Jul 14, 2007 5:15:43 PM

Wait...Bush and Cheney are releasing the tapes to make everyone stop asking questions? I thought they were making Lindsey Lohan drive into telephone poles and bringing Posh Spice and David Becham to the U.S. Isn't that what we really care about. That and the Braves. Chop Chop

Posted by: The Truth | Jul 14, 2007 5:15:44 PM

Is anyone keeping track of how many Al Queda strongholds we are up to? Kabul, Kandahar, Tora Bora, Fallujah, Ramadi,... Sounds like a bunch of losers to me. Kicked pillar to post, but they can still patch together videos from the glory days when they could see the sky.

Best bet: Bin Laden turned himself over to Iran, who keep him (alive or dead) in a nice secure place just north of Teheran. In case he may be useful.

The Mujihadeen we helped in Afghanistan actually turned into the Northern Alliance. The Taliban were the Pakistani Intelligence creation which sought to control the smuggling routes into Pakistan. Osama talks a good fight, but never went on a suicide mission in his life. He always wanted the honor asssociated with being a successful warrior, but was never quite up to it.

Posted by: Donmeaker | Jul 14, 2007 5:16:48 PM

Gail, you're a moron.

Saddam has killed over 1 million Iraqis since he took power (documented) and Al Qaida/Taliban slaughtered thousands of Afghans.

Don't believe me? Ask an Afghan who lives in the west now.

Posted by: Jimbo | Jul 14, 2007 5:17:02 PM

----Bush and Cheney have been responsible for spawning more terrorists than Bin Laden ever did and have killed more Americans and Iraqis than Bin Laden and Hussein, ----

Bullcrap. The theory that killing terrorists spawns more terrorists is idiotic - if so the Nazi's would never have been defeated. Also, Hussein killed 3 million, we haven't unintentionally killed 1,000, so give me a freaking break.

Posted by: Jack Lee | Jul 14, 2007 5:17:26 PM

Osama is with Elvis.

Posted by: andy william | Jul 14, 2007 5:17:45 PM

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