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Al-Jazeera broadcasts new bin Laden tape
(MSNBC, October 29, 2004)
Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, in a videotape broadcast Friday on Al-Jazeera television, promised a new message on "the best way to avoid another Manhattan," a clear reference to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States. . . . U.S. officials who had seen the entire tape told NBC News that in the tape, which they said was authentic, bin Laden tells the American people that "Bush cannot protect you." They said there was no plan to raise the terrorist threat level, currently at yellow, or "elevated," because it makes no specific threat. . . . Neither the Qatar-based channel nor U.S. officials would say how it had received the tape. . . . The last authenticated contemporaneous video message from bin Laden appeared in December 2001, when he discussed a U.S. attack on a mosque. U.S. officials said all subsequent videos of bin Laden were believed to have been recorded earlier and broadcast much later. . . . The last audio message from bin Laden was on April 15, when he offered a truce to European nations if they removed their troops from the Middle East within 90 days. On Oct. 1, bin Laden’s second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahri, issued an audiotape calling on young Muslims to strike the United States and its allies.

posted by LoZo 1:16 PM