New Bin Laden threat tape....calls out Obama

[clenz]

CAIRO (AP) — Osama bin Laden threatened Americans in a new audio recording aired Wednesday, saying President Barack Obama inflamed hatred toward the U.S. by ordering Pakistan to crack down on militants in Swat Valley and block Islamic law there.

Bin Laden claimed U.S. pressure led to a campaign of "killing, fighting, bombing and destruction" that prompted the exodus of a million Muslims from Swat in northwest Pakistan.

The message was broadcast for the first time on pan-Arab Al-Jazeera Television around the same time Obama touched down in Saudi Arabia at the start of a Mideast visit. He is trying repair relations with the Muslim world frayed under the previous Bush administration.

"Elderly people, children and women fled their homes and lived in tents as refugees after they have lived in dignity in their homes," bin Laden said. "Let the American people be ready to reap what the White House leaders have sown," he added.

"Obama and his administration have sown new seeds to increase hatred and revenge on America," bin Laden said. "The number of these seeds is equal to the number of displaced people from Swat Valley."

Pakistan launched in April a military offensive to expel the Taliban from Swat Valley after the militants abandoned a peace deal with the government that gave them control of the region.

The offensive, strongly backed by Washington, is seen as a test of Pakistan's resolve against militants in the northwestern border region near Afghanistan. Pakistanis tired of militant attacks in the country that have killed hundreds of civilians have also supported the campaign. But the fighting has uprooted some 3 million people.

Richard Holbrooke, U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, promptly dismissed suggestions that anyone but al-Qaida and the Taliban are responsible for the refugee crisis in Pakistan. He spoke during a visit to Islamabad.

"This entire problem began with al-Qaida and its associates and everybody in the world knows that. It's silly indeed to respond to such a ludicrous charge," Holbrooke said at a joint news conference with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari.

Bin Laden focused entirely on Pakistan in his latest message, claiming Zardari was paid by the White House to start the crackdown.

Zardari "turned the army from its main task of protecting Islam, Muslims and their land," bin Laden said. He said Zardari "betrayed the nation" to "implement an American, Jewish and Indian conspiracy" against Pakistan.

Al-Jazeera aired excerpts of the recording and did not say how it was obtained. The authenticity of the recording could not be immediately verified.

A U.S. counterterrorism official said the tape is being analyzed by U.S. intelligence but noted there has never yet been a fake bin Laden tape. He said bin Laden is still presumed to be alive and the release of his messages are timed to coincide with major events, noting President Obama's upcoming speech on U.S.-Muslim relations.

He said this message, which criticizes U.S. policy in Pakistan, recycles themes from earlier messages and does not appear to contain any specific or credible threat information.

After the message was broadcast, chatter on militant Web sites speculated that Al-Jazeera had received the tape earlier but aired it to coincide with Obama's landing in Riyadh. But the station's Deputy Editor-in-Chief Ayman Gaballah told The Associated Press that suggestion "does not deserve a comment."

"It is not logical that we comment on anyone who writes something like that on a Web site," Gaballah said.

Bin Laden, whose last message was released in mid-March, has been sparing in his criticism of Obama in the past. In January, he said only that the U.S. president had received a "heavy inheritance" from his predecessor.

However, his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri has repeatedly condemned Obama, even using racial slurs.

Bin Laden's message followed just hours after al-Zawahri, an Egyptian, criticized Obama's planned speech in Cairo Thursday to the Islamic world. He said it will not change the "bloody messages" the U.S. military is sending Muslims in American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.



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[AZGrizFan]

Threat level Orange, HERE WE COME!!!

[AshevilleApp]

Threat level Orange, HERE WE COME!!!

Looking forward to that are you?

[Gil Dobie]

Once we get Bin Laden, the war on terror will be over, no more threat levels, no more suicide bombings, no more pirates, etc, etc.

[AZGrizFan]

Threat level Orange, HERE WE COME!!!

Looking forward to that are you?

I can't WAIT!! My favorite color!

[grizzaholic]

Once we get Bin Laden, the war on terror will be over, no more threat levels, no more suicide bombings, no more pirates.

YUP!

[wkuhillhound]

I guess this eliminates the misconception that Osama and Obama are best buddies. It doesn't matter to these brain dead twits they wouldn't know the difference they just see the letters.

[AZGrizFan]

Once we get Bin Laden, the war on terror will be over, no more threat levels, no more suicide bombings, no more pirates, etc, etc.

That's ALMOST as funny as Grizza saying we shouldn't judge our kids actions.

[AZGrizFan]

I guess this eliminates the misconception that Osama and Obama are best buddies. It doesn't matter to these brain dead twits they wouldn't know the difference they just see the letters.

Oh, BS and you know it. This is purely a cover story.

[Appaholic]

Speaking of reaping the seeds you have sown...great, attack us again & kill 3k of our people and then we have an excuse to respond by killing another +1mil muslim....go ahead...we like killing muslims....

[grizzaholic]

Once we get Bin Laden, the war on terror will be over, no more threat levels, no more suicide bombings, no more pirates, etc, etc.

That's ALMOST as funny as Grizza saying we shouldn't judge our kids actions.

You are the only one that got that AZ. The others took it all serious.

[AZGrizFan]

That's ALMOST as funny as Grizza saying we shouldn't judge our kids actions.

You are the only one that got that AZ. The others took it all serious.

Well, I can ONLY assume Gil is joking here in much the same covert manner.

[wkuhillhound]

I guess this eliminates the misconception that Osama and Obama are best buddies. It doesn't matter to these brain dead twits they wouldn't know the difference they just see the letters.

Oh, BS and you know it. This is purely a cover story.

Please tell me that you're kidding? I live in the socially brain dead central, well (regionally) anyway.

[AZGrizFan]

Oh, BS and you know it. This is purely a cover story.

Please tell me that you're kidding? I live in the socially brain dead central, well (regionally) anyway.

[Gil Dobie]

You are the only one that got that AZ. The others took it all serious.

Well, I can ONLY assume Gil is joking here in much the same covert manner.

You bet your sweet bippy

[wkuhillhound]

Speaking of reaping the seeds you have sown...great, attack us again & kill 3k of our people and then we have an excuse to respond by killing another +1mil muslim....go ahead...we like killing muslims....

[native]

That's ALMOST as funny as Grizza saying we shouldn't judge our kids actions.

You are the only one that got that AZ. The others took it all serious.

Even a pompous, rigid, humorless pseudo-intellectual wretch like me got it.

(Did I forget anything, Cleets? )

[CID1990]

Guess this latest spew from that goat herder is why our President is in Saudi Arabia kissing King Abdullah's ass as we speak...


Maybe if the Messiah understood anything about these clowns he would know that the people we need to convince are not Saudi royals. Maybe we should just send Bin Laden a "reset' button?"

[TwinTownBisonFan]

Guess this latest spew from that goat herder is why our President is in Saudi Arabia kissing King Abdullah's ass as we speak...


Maybe if the Messiah understood anything about these clowns he would know that the people we need to convince are not Saudi royals. Maybe we should just send Bin Laden a "reset' button?"

lemme get this straight...

POTUS goes to arab world, on a trip that's been scheduled for weeks... the goat fucking cave-dweller releases a hasty audio tape because he's unnerved by the fact that moderates in the Arab world are responding to Obamas message of uniting against extremists... and somehow any of what you just said made sense?

[AZGrizFan]

Guess this latest spew from that goat herder is why our President is in Saudi Arabia kissing King Abdullah's ass as we speak...


Maybe if the Messiah understood anything about these clowns he would know that the people we need to convince are not Saudi royals. Maybe we should just send Bin Laden a "reset' button?"

lemme get this straight...

POTUS goes to arab world, on a trip that's been scheduled for weeks... the goat fucking cave-dweller releases a hasty audio tape because he's unnerved by the fact that moderates in the Arab world are responding to Obamas message of uniting against extremists... and somehow any of what you just said made sense?

Yeah. That's right. OBAMA thought of that. You fuckers will take credit for ANYTHING!

[CID1990]

Guess this latest spew from that goat herder is why our President is in Saudi Arabia kissing King Abdullah's ass as we speak...


Maybe if the Messiah understood anything about these clowns he would know that the people we need to convince are not Saudi royals. Maybe we should just send Bin Laden a "reset' button?"

lemme get this straight...

POTUS goes to arab world, on a trip that's been scheduled for weeks... the goat **** cave-dweller releases a hasty audio tape because he's unnerved by the fact that moderates in the Arab world are responding to Obamas message of uniting against extremists... and somehow any of what you just said made sense?

Under normal circumstances, intelligent people are able to read context and realize the intent behind the message. Since these aren't normal circumstances (i.e: I'm not at work drafting cables or dealing with colleagues) I'll change the TWO words in my post that need changing so you can understand it:

"Guess this latest spew from that goat herder is about our President * in Saudi Arabia kissing King Abdullah's ass as we speak..."


How's that work for ya?

[Cap'n Cat]

You are the only one that got that AZ. The others took it all serious.

Even a pompous, rigid, humorless pseudo-intellectual wretch like me got it.

(Did I forget anything, Cleets? )

Yeah, you forgot "cockhound".

[Cap'n Cat]

lemme get this straight...

POTUS goes to arab world, on a trip that's been scheduled for weeks... the goat fucking cave-dweller releases a hasty audio tape because he's unnerved by the fact that moderates in the Arab world are responding to Obamas message of uniting against extremists... and somehow any of what you just said made sense?

Yeah. That's right. OBAMA thought of that. You fuckers will take credit for ANYTHING!

Um, I think he pinned you, Z.

[catamount man]

Obama FEARS Osama.

[Cap'n Cat]

Obama FEARS Osama.

Well, I think everyone does, Catter. Don't you? Think about your kids, then think of Osama and what he's demonstrated he can do. You get a little sick in the gut?

No kids, yet? Graduate from high school, do a year or two in college, then come back here, having shed yourself of the superficial shit in which you engage.