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    'Bin Laden' message harangues US
    An audio message purportedly by al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden has been released on an Islamist website.

    The message, entitled "a statement to the American people", was about 10 minutes long and was accompanied by a still image of Bin Laden but no video.

    In the message, a voice tells the US president that he is "powerless" to stop the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    The message comes just two days after the US marked the eighth anniversary of the 11 September attacks on America.

    According to a monitoring firm that translated the address, Site Intelligence Group, the voice believed to be Bin Laden speaks of how the conflict between al-Qaeda and the US may end.

    "The time has come for you to liberate yourselves from fear and the ideological terrorism of neo-conservatives and the Israeli lobby," the voice in the tape says.

    "The reason for our dispute with you is your support for your ally Israel, occupying our land in Palestine."

    The voice believed to be Bin Laden also speaks of how the conflict between al-Qaeda and the US may end.

    "If you stop the war, then fine. Otherwise we will have no choice but to continue our war of attrition on every front [...] If you choose safety and stopping wars, as opinion polls show you do, then we are ready to respond to this," it says.

    In the message, the al-Qaeda leader accuses the new president of failing to fundamentally change foreign policy because of his decision to retain key figures from the previous administration, including Defence Secretary Robert Gates.

    "If you think about your situation well, you will know that the White House is occupied by pressure groups," he says.

    Bin Laden is thought to be hiding in mountainous terrain on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

    In his last known message, in June, Bin Laden had said that US President Barack Obama had planted the seeds of "revenge and hatred" towards the US in the Muslim world.

    Story from BBC NEWS:
    BBC NEWS | South Asia | 'Bin Laden' message harangues US
    Last edited by Kernow; 14 Sep 09,, 05:34.

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    • #17
      Al Qaeda's Yemen wing is getting active, and seeks funds from rich neighbor Saudi Arabia.

      Yemen's Qaeda wing seeks donations in Saudi Arabia
      DUBAI, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's Yemeni wing is targeting Saudi individuals to ask for donations to support its fight against the U.S.-allied government of Sanaa, Al Arabiya television reported on Sunday.

      The campaign comes at a time when Yemen, one of the poorest countries outside Africa, is battling Shi'ite rebels in the north and sporadic violence in the south where secessionist sentiment is running high.

      Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter, is the largest Arab economy and the birthplace of Islam.

      Arabiya aired a video showing a Saudi member of the group it identified as Saeed al-Shehri urging fellow Saudis to donate money to support al Qaeda fighters in Yemen.

      "The bearer of this message is trusted by us," the militant said after making his request. It was not immediately clear if any arrests were made or how the recording was acquired.

      The broadcaster said the video, in which Shehri appeared to be speaking inside a vehicle with a Yemeni militant by his side, was found in the memory of a mobile telephone.

      Twin suicide car bombings outside the U.S. embassy in Sanaa a year ago killed 16 people. Al Qaeda claimed responsibility.

      In 2008, Saudi Arabia arrested a group of people using a recording by al Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahri, to help raise money from Saudi donors.

      Four Yemenis carrying hand grenades, automatic weapons and ammunition. and guns were arrested near the U.S. embassy in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, Yemen's Interior Ministry said earlier this month, but did not say when they were arrested.

      The ministry said at the time that the four were residents of the town of Damaj in the northern province of Saada, where the government is battling a revolt by Shi'ite Muslims of the Zaydi sect.

      International concern over Yemen has grown because of the risk that instability there could endanger neighbours including Saudi Arabia and complicate efforts to combat al Qaeda and piracy in the Gulf of Aden. .....

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