Sunday, September 13, 2009

Bin Laden Warns Americans in Tape

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (Reuters) — Osama bin Ladenapparently issued a new audio message on an Islamist Web site on Monday, warning the American people about their government’s close ties to Israel.

The message, titled “A statement to the American people,” was approximately 10 minutes long and appeared on a Web site often used by supporters of Al Qaeda.

The same site said this month that it would soon carry a “present” to Muslims from Mr. bin Laden — who is thought to be hiding in the mountainous terrain along the Afghan-Pakistani border — on the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan.

The message comes a few days after the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks of 2001, in which nearly 3,000 people died in the United States.

In the last message attributed to him in June, Mr. bin Laden said President Obama had planted new seeds of “revenge and hatred” toward the United States in the Muslim world.

Those remarks were issued just before a major speech by Mr. Obama in Egypt.

In the speech, Mr. Obama said he sought a “new beginning” between the United States and the Muslim world.

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