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CAIRO — Osama bin Laden lashed out Thursday at Palestinian peace negotiations with Israel and called for a holy war to liberate the Palestinian lands.
A day after a bin Laden audio on a militant Web site threatened Europeans, Al-Jazeera TV broadcast audio excerpts attributed to the al-Qaida leader that urge Palestinians to ignore political parties "mired in trickery of the blasphemous democracy" and to rely on armed might.
"Palestine cannot be retaken by negotiations and dialogue, but with fire and iron," he said.
It was the first time bin Laden spoke of the Palestinian question at length since the deteriorating situation in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, where the Israeli military has been fighting with militants who fire rockets into southern Israel.
Bin Laden added that Palestinians who are unable to fight in the "land of Al-Quds" — a Muslim reference to Jerusalem — should join the al-Qaida fight in Iraq.
"The nearest field of jihad today to support our people in Palestine is the Iraqi field," he said.
He also called on the people of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Saudi Arabia to "help in support of their mujahedeen brothers in Iraq, which is the greatest opportunity and the biggest task."
Al-Jazeera did not say how it obtained the recording, which was broadcast with an old photograph of bin Laden in a white headscarf and traditional Arab dress.
There was no indication how recently the recording was made, or if it was an unreleased part of the audio posted late Wednesday on an extremist Web site that has carried al-Qaida statements in the past. The two messages were bin Laden's first this year.
In the first recording, bin Laden accused Pope Benedict XVI of helping in a "new Crusade" against Muslims and warned of a "severe" reaction for Europeans' publication of cartoons seen by Muslims as insulting Islam's prophet.
In the audio on Al-Jazeera, bin Laden said the sufferings of Palestinians in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip began when Arab leaders supported the U.S.-hosted Mideast peace conference in Annapolis, Md., and the "Zionist entity," the militant name for Israel
The mention of the Annapolis summit in November was the only time reference given in the audio.
"By their support, they are considered partners to this horrible crime," bin Laden said of Arab leaders who are backing the Mideast peace talks.
He appeared to be seeking to merge the Palestinian cause into the wider al-Qaida struggle. There have been concerns al-Qaida would try to increase its influence in Palestinian territories, with supporters of the terror network calling for such action on Web sites.
Israel has been battling Hamas in Gaza since the Islamic militant group took control of the strip last June from followers of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Israeli air raids are common in Gaza and militants fire rockets into Israeli towns near the strip.
"Palestine will not return to us with the negotiations by the submissive rulers, their conferences, nor by demonstrations and elections," bin Laden said. "Palestine will come back to us if we awaken from our ignorance and adhere to our religion and sacrifice our lives and means to it."
Although al-Qaida has previously released two messages in as many days — most recently by bin Laden's top deputy Ayman al-Zawahri in December — the latest two appeared to be the closest by bin Laden, said Ben Venzke, head of IntelCenter, a U.S. group that monitors militant messages.
"Al-Qaida has been making a concerted effort to be responsive to developments in news cycle and to respond to current events with their perspective on it," Venzke said. "The situation in Gaza and the reprinting of cartoons was something bin Laden felt was important to address."
A militant Web site that frequently carries al-Qaida postings, said later Thursday that it expected bin Laden's new audio on "The Way to Salvage Palestine" soon.
In Israel, Foreign Ministry spokesman Arye Mekel told The Associated Press that Israel does not comment on bin Laden's statements.
Saeb Erekat, a negotiator for Abbas' Palestinian administration, said it was up to all parties in the talks to show that bin Laden's path isn't the way.
"We and the international community must prove him wrong, because we have been pursuing peace through negotiations, and I believe the parties involved must make every effort to make the year 2008 a year of peace," Erekat said.
The audio released Wednesday raised concerns al-Qaida was plotting attacks in Europe. Some experts said bin Laden, believed to be hiding along the Afghan-Pakistan area, might be unable to organize attacks himself and was trying to fan anger over the cartoons to inspire violence by supporters.
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the contents of bin Laden's message "are filled with hate and encouraging people to murder innocents in the name of a perverted and depraved cause."
A Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said Thursday that bin Laden's accusation about the pope was baseless. He said Benedict repeatedly criticized the Muhammad cartoons, first published in some European newspapers in 2006 and republished by Danish papers in February.
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Associated Press Writer Ian Deitch contributed to this report from Jerusalem.
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{"commentId":1602610,"authorDomain":"ejronin"}
what's sad is that someone will listen to Osama... and somehow Paul Wolfowitz will urge some kind of US action.
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#1 - Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:46 PM EDT{"commentId":1602656,"authorDomain":"PeterMerel"}
Osama is dead, has been for years. This stuff is just the Bushies setting the stage for this year's September Surprise.
{"commentId":1602656,"threadId":"237770","contentId":"1380132","authorDomain":"PeterMerel"}
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{"commentId":1602667,"authorDomain":"ejronin"}
I don't recall there being evidence of his death. I remember that we suspected he was dead, but... I dunno
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":1603154,"authorDomain":"greenpagan"}
Osama is dead, has been for years. This stuff is just the Bushies setting the stage for this year's September Surprise.
You can't count anything out. Especially where those vicious insects are concerned.
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{"commentId":1603154,"threadId":"237770","contentId":"1380132","authorDomain":"greenpagan"}
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{"commentId":1608145,"authorDomain":"PeterMerel"}
Osama's bin dead since 2001. Anyway the guy who "confessed" to doing 9/11 a few days after Osama broadcast his denial of any involvement was an obvious fake. Here, you check the video and tell me this is Osama ...
{"commentId":1608145,"threadId":"237770","contentId":"1380132","authorDomain":"PeterMerel"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":1608500,"authorDomain":"ejronin"}
As much as this conspiracy theory is fun, No one has been able to prove the claims that he's dead. The sites you list don't' prove anything pertaining to the this video, nor do they unequivocally prove he's dead. They imply it with bits of scattered facts.
{"commentId":1608500,"threadId":"237770","contentId":"1380132","authorDomain":"ejronin"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":1602626,"authorDomain":"snwod"}
I think it would be easier for all concerned if Bin Laden would tell us who he's NOT urging to jihad.
Rabbits. Rabbits, I urge you not to jihad. Fans of the 80s TV show Family Ties are also exempt from jihad. Allah, I loved that show, and it'd be a shame if all its fans were killed while jihading. Who would I get to recite funny lines with?
{"commentId":1602626,"threadId":"237770","contentId":"1380132","authorDomain":"snwod"}
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#2 - Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:51 PM EDT{"commentId":1602850,"authorDomain":"protoolrobot"}
Don't forget the Facts of Life.
You take the good. You take ji-had.
You take em both and there you have...
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{"commentId":1602641,"authorDomain":"eric-albert"}
Occupation, ethnic cleansing does not need a "holy war" against Zionist Israeli and Amerikan Empire, criminal policies. The secular world took on the Nazi occupation, as the Iraqis are taking on Amerikan Empire and its endless occupation. Manipulation by Obama or imperial Western states, to use these mindless strategies, ideologies, is proof that they are parallel in their failures. However, it is the West that is the imperial master in the Arab world, with its long colonial, apartheid history, that Israel as itself embraced, for its own class nationalism.
Therefore, it might help to point out that Ronald Reagan financed these "freedom fighters" , Obama himself and the Mujahadeen, who were fighting the Stalinist, Soviet deformed worker's state and Empire, and therefore routinely manipulate and use anti colonial struggles for its own imperialism. This is no different than the installation of thugs, like the Shah, Noriega, Saddam, and Pinochet, all military Nazis financed by the U.S. again for its own class Empire and occupations, in order to later use the liberal argument, "that at least we grot rid of a dicttators.
This is hypocrisy and it is this dripping distorted headline, that exposes exactly what is wrong with the Corporate media, that lied us into the illegal wars of Vietnam and Iraq, and are now warmongering us into Iran. Of course Israel, as its imperial partner will embrace this proto fascist, imperial ideology, for their own ethnic cleansing. The Palestinians are being set up by both Western ideological thugs, and misused by religious theocracy. Still the powerlessnes, and occupied groups always have the right to resist their occupation, whether it is in religious terms or class nationalists terms. Real Resistance must take on all rotten imperial ideologies, and warmongering, like you see here.
{"commentId":1602641,"threadId":"237770","contentId":"1380132","authorDomain":"eric-albert"}
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#3 - Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:56 PM EDT{"commentId":1602649,"authorDomain":"ejronin"}
Therefore, it might help to point out that Ronald Reagan financed these "freedom fighters" , Obama himself and the Mujahadeen who were fighting the Stalinist, Soviet deformed worker's state and Empire, and therefore routinely manipulate and use anti colonial struggles for its own imperialism, or use thugs, like the Shah, Noriega, Saddam, and Pinochet, all military Nazis financed by the U.S. again for its own class Empire and occupations.
So I assume that becuase we helped fund them to begin with it is rather hypocritical to go against them now?
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{"commentId":1602666,"authorDomain":"eric-albert"}
Yes, in the same way we claim we are for democracy, only to support thugs, like Saddam, so we can bankrupt our economies in endless imperial wars.
{"commentId":1602666,"threadId":"237770","contentId":"1380132","authorDomain":"eric-albert"}
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{"commentId":1602729,"authorDomain":"eric-albert"}
I mispelled Osama, for Obama, my apologies, but the real issues of ideological manipulation, are important here. If I remember this picture, it does go all the way back to the days when the Right wing thugs supported these religious fundamentalists against the Soviet Empire. Of course Osama was against both Western and Stalinist Empire, and said so. He did not change his anti colonial stance. It was the Amerikan Empire that said, Osama had no right to take on the U.S. occupation of Saudi Arabia by permament U.S. military bases. In the end the oligarchy of Saudi Arabia itself told the U.S. to get the hell out. If we had listened to the demands of Osama, and to end our imperial Empire, we would not be fighting two false alternatives, one a holy warrior, and one an imperial thug. Neither one was an alternative, and our phonh war against Terrorism, with our own State Terrorist, imperial fascist foreign policies, has created a world of Osama Bin Ladens. Still clueless today, the corporate media offers us these false options. It is not between Osama and the Palestinians, but rather between imperial Empire and theocratic class hiearchies, that are in fact parallel failures.
{"commentId":1602729,"threadId":"237770","contentId":"1380132","authorDomain":"eric-albert"}
- 4 votes
{"commentId":1603160,"authorDomain":"ejronin"}
Yes, in the same way we claim we are for democracy, only to support thugs, like Saddam, so we can bankrupt our economies in endless imperial wars.
So if we say that we helped fund the 'terrorists" to begin with and had no real idea that the end result would be this (becuase no one can see the future), then I would assert that we then have the responsibility to go in and stop them from abusing the weapons and funding we've given them. Isn't that what the citizens of the US are doing now with the Bush administration - complaining and @!$%#ing about the power we've vested in to it that was so abused and doing what we can to take that power back? It's no different. I think, Eric, you're in a way asking for it both ways and I'm sorry, if that is the case it isn't going to happen.
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{"commentId":1602843,"authorDomain":"eric-albert"}
I hope this abrupt silence, and loss of comments, means that most people agree with the international, and left perspective, that double standards, class standards, class nationalism, whether relgious or secular, cannot be used in an opportunistic way. I guess that means solidarity, with the international, universal position of social values, not class values, not class nationalism, not class hieararchies, whether religious or secular. Thank you for your support......Chuckle.....I know more comments are coming after this remark.
{"commentId":1602843,"threadId":"237770","contentId":"1380132","authorDomain":"eric-albert"}
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#4 - Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:14 PM EDT{"commentId":1603168,"authorDomain":"ejronin"}
and left perspective, that double standards, class standards, class nationalism, whether relgious or secular, cannot be used in an opportunistic way.
Again Eric, I have to say that the left perspective (I assume to mean "liberal") is also full of classism and double standards. If you don't mean left as liberal then please explain what it is you mean by "left". As you know, I'm "right" meaning more on the conservative side, and I for one would really be interested in hearing your issue with "right", not in action or inaction, but in ideology as it pertains to the platform not the people who claim it.
{"commentId":1603168,"threadId":"237770","contentId":"1380132","authorDomain":"ejronin"}
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{"commentId":1603943,"authorDomain":"IslamicScholars"}
Osama is long gone, but his mental image lives on..
Something must be done about the Palestinian issue though, because that is a very serious matter .
{"commentId":1603943,"threadId":"237770","contentId":"1380132","authorDomain":"IslamicScholars"}
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