And you thought he was dead.
Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden urged Muslims to launch a jihad against Israel and condemned Arab governments as allies of the Jewish state in a new message aimed at harnessing anger in the Mideast over the Gaza offensive.
Bin Laden spoke in an audiotape posted Wednesday on Islamic militant Web sites where al-Qaida usually issues its messages. It was his first tape since May and came nearly three weeks after Israel started its campaign against Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers.
“There is only one strong way to bring the return of Al-Aqsa and Palestine, and that is jihad in the path of God,” bin Laden said in the 22-minute audiotape, referring to the revered Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. “The duty is to urge people to jihad and to enlist the youth into jihad brigades.”
“Muslim nation, you are capable of defeating the Zionist entity with your popular capabilities and your great hidden strength — without the support of (Arab) leaders and despite the fact that most of (the leaders) stand in the barracks of the Crusader-Zionist alliance,” bin Laden said.
The authenticity of the tape could not be independently confirmed, but the voice resembled that of bin Laden in previous messages.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090114/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_al_qaida_israel
He pops up now and then, like an Elvis sighting.
Same ol’ bin Laden. Calls for Jihad, ‘allah willing’, blah…blah…blah….
It worked so well in Iraq, didn’t it? And it will fail just as badly in Gaza and come to think of it, Afghanistan. But he keeps making an appearance now and then just to let us know he’s still consuming precious oxygen.
By the way, he looks like shit:
Must be all that spelunking in Pakistan.