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Bin Laden to Europe: Get Out of Afghanistan
November 29, 2007 1:16 PM
Osama bin Laden is calling on European nations to end their support of "America's oppression" in Afghanistan in an audiotape message just released.
Video: Listen to an excerpt of Bin Laden's Message to Europe
Bin Laden says he was responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and that the people and government of Afghanistan are innocent victims of America's war there.
Bin Laden said the U.S. pursued a war in Afghanistan despite the fact they had no evidence of a connection to the attacks. He said he attacked America on 9/11 because of the government's involvement in Palestine and Lebanon.
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"The American tide is retreating," said bin Laden. He warned that the U.S. will soon go back home to their side of the Atlantic Ocean and added that the war in Afghanistan unfairly targets the women and children there.
The audio message was accompanied by an old still photo of bin Laden, but no new video of the terror leader was released today. In September, bin Laden appeared in a video message which was the first time he was seen on video in three years.
The latest audio message from the al Qaeda leader, who is believed to be hiding in Pakistan, aired this afternoon on al Jazeera TV and is expected to be widely distributed online in extreme Islamist forums. The media wing of al Qaeda, as Sahab, began advertising today's message online a few days ago.
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November 29, 2007 in Osama bin Laden | Permalink | User Comments (69)
He is runing scared.
Posted by: RGD | Nov 29, 2007 1:31:45 PM
There was no message from Bin Laden, it's more propaganda.
Posted by: Truth Hurts | Nov 29, 2007 1:36:00 PM
This was probably recorded three years ago....He is nothing.
Posted by: havoc88 | Nov 29, 2007 1:37:12 PM
This tape is nothing more than the CIA's response to the growing 9/11 Truth movement, which has completely dismantled the official story.
Sad and shocking but undeniably true. The enemy has always been within.
Posted by: John | Nov 29, 2007 1:41:47 PM
He is under pressure from the Taliban to do something about the large loss of life which the Taliban are enduring in Afghanistan on a daily basis.
It is no accident that he hasn't been able to cause a mass casualty event since madrid which caused Spain's withdrawal from Iraq.
In fact Bin laden has not been able to help his friends in the Taliban at all.
Posted by: Chris | Nov 29, 2007 1:52:10 PM
Yes, but did he see his shadow? Are we going to have 6 more weeks of winter?
Posted by: scalewoodman | Nov 29, 2007 1:55:49 PM
He seems very confused and contradicting...it seems like a desparate cry to me. Hmmm, half the world is here, trying to capture or kill me. I think I'll send out a tape, urging them to stop in their quest...and "the war" is killing innocent women and children? Don't think so, bud...YOU are killing innocent women and children...
Posted by: Jazz | Nov 29, 2007 1:56:36 PM
well if you say so, then I think we should stay.
Posted by: joseph | Nov 29, 2007 1:57:48 PM
Or maybe he is pointing fingers to America and saying..."Are you that insane to kill thousands of ppl and not come after me?"
Posted by: Aziz | Nov 29, 2007 1:58:40 PM
Yo Osama - we won't be retreating from Afghanistan anytime soon so stay in your cave or be blasted to smithereens. The war only seems to you to target women and children because your cowardly soldiers use them for protection.
Posted by: Bob | Nov 29, 2007 1:59:16 PM
"running scared." That's laughable, bush sez "osama bin laden-who?"
Posted by: Joshdestardi | Nov 29, 2007 2:01:52 PM
Let's see, he's responsible, the people sheltering him are not, so we should leave them alone and stop trying to get him. Right. If he's so concerned about his benefactors, he should turn himself in and face the music.
Posted by: Bgascan | Nov 29, 2007 2:04:22 PM
I did not see Osama bin Laden declaring war on thr US when the Russians were in Afghanistan.
Posted by: Chuck | Nov 29, 2007 2:05:42 PM
Anybody informed know Ben Laden was an agent of CIA before his death and Al Qaida a smoke screen created by CIA
Posted by: Horus | Nov 29, 2007 2:08:53 PM
We'll leave when OBL is dead, or in custody.
Posted by: Gene | Nov 29, 2007 2:13:01 PM
Why don't you come out here where we can see you and say that?
Posted by: CYD | Nov 29, 2007 2:13:20 PM
Typical wartime propaganda tactic... trying to beat us by separating us from our allies. Hey Osama, it didn't work for Goebbels either ya know. If you want to sound like some kind of statesman, stop telling your soldiers that it's OK to kill women, kids and themselves. We will find you eventually. Love & kisses, the USA
Posted by: Zoopster | Nov 29, 2007 2:15:07 PM
It's truly amazing that we can post a picture of a pedophile with a circle of colors as a face and we can locate him within days. Yet we have this r that's probably is working at a Pat's Mini Mart in Washington DC and we can't locate him. Someone of importance is hosting this man. The truth will come out.....
Posted by: ruben | Nov 29, 2007 2:23:55 PM
I think he is dead!! His look alike is on tape. He sure does lead well if he is alive. Telling others to kill and use their bodies as bombs. Good leader isnt he? you go kill yourself for Islam and I stay here alive and tell them you got the virgins. Shows how backwards and ignorant these followers are. Cause harm to the innocent so I (OBL)can hold the power and lead the ignorant
Posted by: Jim Rod | Nov 29, 2007 2:26:48 PM
It appears likely that Osama bin Laden will outlast two terms of the Bush administration. I am amazed that there are still people out there who support the President and his administration after all the costly errors in the war and countless American lives lost. Certainly, we dropped the ball amd lost focus. What a shame.
Posted by: Robert | Nov 29, 2007 2:27:40 PM
Ok Europe, master bin laden has spoken. Pop tu. Jump. Run. As i watch you run from Iraq as quickly as possible, the US with the Iraqi people are turning the tide. Run ='s lose. Don't be scared. The US will save you too.... for now.
Posted by: MarinesCallmeDoc1 | Nov 29, 2007 2:31:24 PM
next comes the 'verification' that this tape is authentic...
Posted by: Sebastian | Nov 29, 2007 2:32:42 PM
He sure has a selective memory. He forgets that it's his goons that target women and children and that NATO is in Afghanistan because he was based there.
In any event, I hope the Europeans aren't as cowardly as Spain was after the Madrid bombings. Otherwise they might as well hand over their governments to Bin Laden.
Posted by: Rob | Nov 29, 2007 2:36:38 PM
Come on over and help your Taliban brothers! Coward! You ran and let them die!
Posted by: Jim | Nov 29, 2007 2:37:52 PM
I Cannot wait for him to be dead!
Posted by: Tmarsi | Nov 29, 2007 2:38:31 PM
and Rudolph blew a gasket and xmas may not be coming this year. Give it a rest, its tired, even high school kids know the real deal.
Posted by: testa | Nov 29, 2007 2:42:03 PM
BinLaden conveniently ignores the fact that Afghanistan was withholding information on his whereabouts. You do not attack a nation blind-sidedly and expect an escape from retribution
Posted by: Talon | Nov 29, 2007 2:45:24 PM
I think this man is irrelevant. Or maybe Bush has asked his family to keep him low key now. Perhaps?
Posted by: Hector A | Nov 29, 2007 2:48:07 PM
I'm sorry, but I don't buy his words. The Taliban supported Bin Laden by providing training camps, money, etc., thus their government was responsible indirectly for 9/11. They're not innocent of causing 9/11 no matter how many people try to say other wise.
Posted by: jupmod | Nov 29, 2007 2:53:36 PM
Funny how the people of Afganistan are "Innocent Victims", but the thousands of civilians that died on 9/11 were to blame because of our governments involvement in Palestine and Lebenon. I love that logic. Moron!
Posted by: Kevin | Nov 29, 2007 2:58:14 PM
I see this chief blasphemer of Islam is still hiding out in Pakistan while inspiring others to die in his place.
Posted by: richard w | Nov 29, 2007 3:10:09 PM
A true Islamic does not kill or have individuals fly into buildings. There is no where written in the Holy Qur’an that indicates kill innocent people to express your point of view. I do not believe this is Bin Laden – he may be dead already. There is no proof this is Bin Laden maybe it is his followers that post these comments.
Posted by: sue from Texas | Nov 29, 2007 3:17:34 PM
JUPMOD, Does that mean that the US bears some responsibality because we were the Talibans key supporters during their rise to power??? Your reasoning suggests so
Posted by: JONJON | Nov 29, 2007 3:26:12 PM
olly olly oxen free!!! come out, come out wherever you are :) this guy should've been dead a long time ago- why does Bush insist on keeping him alive?? guess to keep validating his eternal war on terror.
Posted by: j | Nov 29, 2007 3:40:30 PM
Did he really say we didn't follow the rules of war?
Seriously Senor Suicide Women Bomber/Kidnapper/Attacking Medical Personnel/Mixing with Civilian Populations?
Where is Sherman's "Total War" when we need it.
Posted by: Shawn | Nov 29, 2007 3:45:20 PM
and the winning post goes to....scalewoodman!
Posted by: GM | Nov 29, 2007 3:59:53 PM
If he were truly concerned about the innocent victims in Afghanistan, why did he allow them to harbor him and his band of cowards. Why not turn himself in to show he is the humanitarian he is professing to be. I sentence him to death by Bunga-Bunga!!
Posted by: Wasteman77 | Nov 29, 2007 4:04:37 PM
The 9/11 "Truth" Movement was started by under-educated film students thinking they had stumbled onto something that has been debunked and debunked and debunked. Bin Laden is real. 9/11 was carried out by Islamic radicals just like Beslan was carried out by Islamic radicals we know as "Chechen rebels". There was NO CONSPIRACY FROM BUSH/CHENEY! What is funny is how these "informed" people discount EXPERTS in their field of thermodynamics and other very credible people that are NOT BUSH SUPPORTERS! M.I.T. has done a wonderful report and I have personally interviewed the director of risk and security for the WTC the day they were hit. NOTHING GETS BY THIS GUY! He is as insulted that these people haven't gotten BASIC SCIENCE principles. The big argument is that WTC 7 fell without cause. Try googling #6 heating oil and figure out for yourself how many BTUs caused that building to fail. Ignorant people deserve to be followed by other ignorant people. KKK is a prime example of a small group of people ignoring basic science. Global warming falls into this as well. We think we have an effect on out climate yet we don't know how much rain falls each day in a given area. Science tells us factually that no effort can change a climate for a determined amount of time based on water vapor changes. CO2 DOES NOT CONTROL TEMPERATURE, TEMPERATURE CONTROLS CO2.... LOOK IT UP, FOLKS, THIS IS AS BASIC AS IT GETS!!!
Posted by: Tommy | Nov 29, 2007 4:18:07 PM
He is dead and they are useing doubles. If not, then he's a little ruler hiding for his life and useing others for theirs. Wake Muslims and denounce this way of life
Posted by: Jim Rod | Nov 29, 2007 4:23:52 PM
This Bin Laden tape is so fake! Just like that school teacher that just got sent to jail for naming a Teddy Bear Muhammad. Or that lady who got raped and was sentenced to prison and 200 lashes. People please, open your eyes, anyone can see that these are virtual reality people created by the CIA to make those people look bad. It's just like that Uranium the Slovak Police just seized. Like they would really make a dirty bomb. It's all carefully crafted computer graphics created by the Bush administration, CIA, Sudanese and the Slovak and Hungarian authorities, they are all in cahoots! Wake up people, it all makes perfect sense.
Posted by: John | Nov 29, 2007 4:43:02 PM
Do I sense desperation (God willing)?
Posted by: w_roos | Nov 29, 2007 4:55:48 PM
bin ole boy, you know the old saying....you can run but you cannot hide...is your army of cowards getting tired of you? Sooner or Later that Huge Bounty is going to catch up with you, one of your followers is going to give you up...that kind of money, why hide in a cave?????
Posted by: pathlo | Nov 29, 2007 4:57:24 PM
JONJON: If America did supported the Taliban before they supported Bin Laden, maybe America is responsible for the long-term cause of 9/11. This is nothing new, for after all, history is full of examples where 'allies' later became 'enemies'.
Posted by: jupmod | Nov 29, 2007 4:59:23 PM
This Bin Laden tape is so fake! Just like that school teacher that just got sent to jail for naming a Teddy Bear Muhammad. Or that lady who got raped and was sentenced to prison and 200 lashes. People please, open your eyes, anyone can see that these are virtual reality people created by the CIA to make those people look bad. It's just like that Uranium the Slovak Police just seized. Like they would really make a dirty bomb. It's all carefully crafted computer graphics created by the Bush administration, CIA, Sudanese and the Slovak and Hungarian authorities, they are all in cahoots! Wake up people, it all makes perfect sense.
Posted by: John | Nov 29, 2007 5:01:55 PM
There's a reason they call these things conspiracy THEORIES. I'm not sure waking up is going to help you and the mindles followers that ignore evidence, and follow theories from whack jobs with nothing factual to contribute. Please stay off of credible chats and stick to your nut job websites
Posted by: Doug | Nov 29, 2007 5:03:22 PM
He says he was responsible for 911 attacks but felt we shouldn't have ayyacked because we didn't have proof. What an idiot.
Posted by: Jack, Peoria IL. | Nov 29, 2007 5:14:58 PM
Does it occur to "Bin Laden" that he is the one that brought the war to Afghanistan? If people die there ("women and children"), it is because of him. Does "Bin Laden" know that he destroyed his own "cause" himself? You don't get people to do what you want by blowing up aircraft and buildings with people in them. It is all the more reason not to listen to what "Bin Laden" says. What a delusion! What a perversion! What a disgrace! What a clueless person! It's no wonder that what "Bin Laden" says is just so much nonsense.
Posted by: Daleri | Nov 29, 2007 5:15:43 PM
Bush has yet to either find the weapons of mass destruction or Bin Laden which were the fundamental goals set before invading Iraq.
Posted by: Jack | Nov 29, 2007 5:34:59 PM
Bin Laden/Al Qaida are instruments of FEAR invented by C.I.A. to create fear and allow them to make us go along with any hairbrained scheme the CORPORATE Govt. shills want. 911 was an inside job, there is NO OTHER POSSIBLE EXPLANATION.
By the way you STILL CAN'T MAKE CELL PHONE CALLS FROM PLANES. CAN'T DO IT, NEVER COULD. Start there,
Ok, let's forget that there were people waiving out of those plane-holes that were so hot they melted the whole building. (I think the proper thing to say would be no high-rise EVER fell from fire or plane but 3 did, that day, including WTC 7 which BBC just happened to annnounce it's collapse 20 min before it happened...THAT'S just a coincidence)Forget the footage of firefighters describing a SERIES of SEQUENTIAL EXPLOSIONS.
How about....WHERE was NORAD, whose sole purpose is to intercept planes. 60 some planes were intercepted, within 15 MINUTES for flying over Crawford, here in Texas, last year. Cheney was conducting 4 live "highjacking" drills, ina bunker, that day. It's not my opinion, it's proven fact.....a..ummm...yeah, that's the ticket! Arabs, with BOXcutters! Coincidence. BUT, SOMEHOW, Norad COULDN'T DO ANYTHING FOR AN hour and a half, EVEN THOUGH everyone knew planes had been highjacked and that we were "under attack".
Let's not talk about the PUT OPTIONS, from someone, betting that AMERICAN and UNITED airlines stock would fall. "Someone" bought MILLIONS of $$$ worth of stock options in the days before 911. We're told thye were bought anonymously...ANONYMOUSLY???? WHAT???
Go buy a cupla millions dolars worth of stock options and tell me how that works for you.
Posted by: steve | Nov 29, 2007 6:16:21 PM
the guy sounds like a washed-up politician. Guess he needs a little pick-me-up publicity. Who is he anymore? Sorry, BinLaden, you've been taken over by Dancing With The Stars!....Can you dance?
Posted by: daniel forest | Nov 29, 2007 6:43:36 PM
Would they just catch this punk already. Geez. What's the hold up?
Posted by: James | Nov 29, 2007 6:58:45 PM
HOOARY that We won the terrorist war.That's means good news for U.S. troops won war that bins surrendered>
Posted by: deaftim | Nov 29, 2007 7:00:27 PM
Hey big boy, it's not hard to find us. We're the ones wearing American flags on our uniforms. Watch where the latest Taliban remnants are running from, and run in that direction.
My rounds are for the NY Fire Dept. You can have any one of em you want.
Come get some martyrdom, tough guy. We're your huckleberries.
Posted by: Soldier | Nov 29, 2007 7:22:54 PM
Hey, Osama! If you want Europe to withdraw from Afghanistan, turn yourself over to the Hague for all the suffering you've caused throughout the globe! Come on out and show yourself instead of hiding in the remote caves of the Hindu Kush like the rat b@stard, coward that you are- only then can we consider your 'request'. You give Islam a bad name.
Posted by: K Thibault | Nov 29, 2007 7:55:13 PM
If bin laden is saying that he was responsible for 9/11 then why doesnt' he do honor by his people and be a real warrior and step up to the plate instead of hiding behind the very people he claims to care about!
Posted by: jillrudisill@hotmail.com | Nov 29, 2007 7:58:27 PM
Just more proof that Bin Laden is losing the war... HaHa
Posted by: Rick | Nov 29, 2007 8:03:39 PM
Bee R's
Posted by: john | Nov 29, 2007 8:27:46 PM
Here we go, again, another bin Laden phoney. At least they got the color of his beard right this time!
Posted by: Allan_Krueger | Nov 29, 2007 8:46:05 PM
Hey Jack, you are absolutely right about 9/11!
Posted by: Allan_Krueger | Nov 29, 2007 8:49:27 PM
John said "The enemy has always been within. " Yes, John is a classic example of the enemy within spreading absurd propaganda against the U.S. government.
Posted by: john aims | Nov 29, 2007 8:57:36 PM
He's running scared, we already ran him out of Afghanistan and he has no place else to go.
Posted by: BTL musings | Nov 29, 2007 9:25:13 PM
People Get Real. After 6years this man has not been captured by any Government. I really don't think the world Governments want this guy captured because he is a handy tool to have around as long as he is alive and free. We can be thrown into Terror anytime the governments need us to be in fear. The world most advanced, powerful, intellegent country can not locate a man in a cave yeah Right. I will buy that for a doller, NOT.
Posted by: Adeeb N. | Nov 30, 2007 4:13:55 PM
It's an AUDIO tape. How do we know it is Bin Laden's voice? Why do you report it is absolutely Bin Laden's voice and not also report on the methods used to validate the voice as Bin Laden's? Also, why did Bin Laden deny on VIDEO tape that he was NOT responsible for 9/11 within two weeks of the event, yet now, several years later a nameless, faceless AUDIO tape surfaces saying the opposite. Why does ABCNEWS believe an AUDIO tape several years after the fact instead of believing a VIDEO tape recorded just days after 9/11. These are valid questions that the press never even bothers to ask.
Posted by: Eric | Nov 30, 2007 4:29:17 PM
The plane that crashed in Shanksville, PA, Flight 93, was more than likely intended to target WTC 7. The fact that the plane crashed prematurely and did not strike the target, yet the target still fell, is quite supportive of the theory that WTC 7 was indeed wired with explosives to demolish. Had Flight 93 not crashed in PA, and instead hit its intended target, it would be much more difficult to question the fall of WTC 7 (in a similar way that people apply the blame to the fall of WTC #1 & #2 on the impact of the other two places). However, Flight 93 did not crash into WTC 7 (as was probably originally intended) and yet WTC 7 still fell. You cannot discount this valid line of thinking, and it is quite clear that there is more behind the story of the fall of WTC Building #7. This does not mean the GOVERNMENT wired the building to explode. Maybe the TERRORISTS did that too. But in my view since the government is refusing to discuss this aspect of 9/11, I tend to discount their version of events.
Posted by: Think for once | Nov 30, 2007 4:44:32 PM
I believe the SAS squads in the Afghan mountains have Usama just a little bit nervous.
Posted by: Guardian | Dec 1, 2007 1:41:14 PM
Has anyone even noticed that Binladen pictures show him a lot younger than before afghanistan. I wonder who has been supplying him the BOTOX!
Posted by: angelheart80153 | Dec 1, 2007 2:13:57 PM
eric
I do hope you get a chance explain your theories to family members of flight 93 victims.
Posted by: steve | Dec 2, 2007 5:41:00 AM
The reporting of this alleged tape by OBL forgot to mention that the tape has not been authenticated and may have been recorded by anyone. OBL does not exist. These tapes and videos are all fake. Do you really think the Bush Administration is trying to find OBL when they are clearly doing business with the Bin Laden family and even let them all escape back to Saudi Arabia after 9/11?
Posted by: Brian birchall, rancher | Dec 3, 2007 12:45:03 PM
i want to say that al qaida and "terriosim" is the drama of american leaders against islam and muslims.Muslims can not kill innocent people because it is mentioned in Quran that to kill an innocent person is as to kill the whole humanity.
Posted by: ali | Dec 11, 2007 4:58:41 AM
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