Tap Video of Osama Bin Laden Released with Pashto Translation

Tap Video of Osama Bin Laden Released with Pashto Translation: Al Qaeda has re-released a videotape of Osama bin Laden with Pashto translation.
Same video was released earlier on July 12, 2000. Intel Center US, which monitors terrorism activities, said this video was earlier released in Urdu and Arabic. Osama in the video had urged Pakistani people to play their role for brining change in country’s foreign policy.

Sheikh Khalifa Re-elected UAE President

DUBAI : Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan was re-elected president of the United Arab Emirates for a second five-year term on Tuesday.

The Supreme Federal Council, made up of the rulers of the seven emirates in the UAE, selected Sheikh Khalifa, 61.

He first rose to the presidency as oil-rich Abu Dhabi’s ruler in 2004 on the death of his father, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, who founded the Gulf state in 1971.

The council designates both the president and vice president.

Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashed al-Maktoum, who is also the country’s prime minister, defence minister and ruler of Dubai, has served as vice president since 2006.

The UAE, an OPEC member which produces 2.2 million barrels of oil per day, held its first indirect legislative election in 2006 to designate 40 members of the consultative National Federal Council.

Taliban New Activities Lunched Form Quetta: U.S

ISLAMABAD: US once again accused that Osama Bin Laden is alive and Taliban leadership including Mullah Omar is present in Quetta.
Talking to media, Deputy Chief of the Mission, US Embassy Gerald M. Feierstein alleged that Osama is present in Pakistan, adding the command system of Taliban is based in Quetta and they are launching their activities from the suburbs of the city.

He urged the government of Pakistan to arrest Taliban leadership.

Gerald said success against Al-Qaeda was acquired in collaboration with Pakistan; however, a few Taliban leaders are still in Pakistan.

He said there is no US security firm including Blackwater in Pakistan, adding however, the embassy has taken 100 houses on rent for its staff in Islamabad.

Osama Tape Released, Warned the U.S. People

WASHINGTON: Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden warned the American people over their government’s close ties with Israel in an apparently new audio tape posted on an Islamist website on Monday.
“The time has come for you to liberate yourselves from fear and the ideological terrorism of neo-conservatives and the Israeli lobby,” Bin Laden’s latest tape said.

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

The message, entitled “A statement to the American people,” was around 11 minutes long and was posted a few days after the eighth anniversary of the Sept 11, 2001 attacks.

Reuters was not immediately able to verify its authenticity but the website often is used by supporters of al Qaeda.

In the tape, the al Qaeda leader said there had been no real change in American policy because U.S. President Barack Obama had retained people like U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates from the administration of former President George W. Bush.

“If you think about your situation well, you will know that the White House is occupied by pressure groups,” Bin Laden said.

“Rather than fighting to liberate Iraq — as Bush claimed — it (the White House) should have been liberated.”

The website had said earlier this month it would soon carry a “present” to Muslims from bin Laden on the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan.

The leader of the group that mounted the September 11 attacks in the United States is thought to be in hiding in the mountainous terrain along the Afghan-Pakistani border.

The attacks carried out by al Qaeda operatives in 2001 killed nearly 3,000 people.

The tape made reference to Obama’s speech in Cairo in June, suggesting the message was recorded afterwards. The speaker also appeared to refer to criticisms former U.S. President Jimmy Carter made in June of Israel’s Gaza invasion earlier this year.

Bin Laden’s last apparent message was issued just before Obama’s speech, where the president talked of a “new beginning” between the United States and the Muslim world.

In the new message, bin Laden also referred to U.S. military actions in Afghanistan to support the Afghan government against the Taliban, allies of al Qaeda, and support for Pakistan, which faces militant violence.

“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.”

“You have only changed the faces in the White House,” he said, referring to Obama who took office this year. “Obama is a weakened man. He will not be able to stop the war.”

U.S. Support Israel Calls 9 / 11: Osama

WASHINGTON : Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden told Americans in a new message on Sunday that their support for Israel had prompted him to launch the September 11, 2001 attacks, a US-based terror monitoring group said.
Al Qaeda’s As-Sahab media released a video titled “Message to the American People,” which features a still image of bin Laden and an audio statement, said IntelCenter.

The release came two days after the United States marked the eighth anniversary of the al Qaeda-sponsored attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people.

According to the center, Bin Laden said that among “some other injustices,” US support to Israel motivated al Qaeda to launch the 9/11 attacks.

He also stated that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were driven by the pro-Israeli lobby in the White House and corporate interests, not militants. “If you think about your situation well, you will know that the White House is occupied by pressure groups,” he said, according to IntelCenter. “Rather than fighting to liberate Iraq – as Bush claimed – it (the White House) should have been liberated.” He was referring to former US president George W. Bush, who launched an invasion of Iraq in 2003. According to bin Laden, current US President Barack Obama is powerless to change the course of the wars.

Obama’s retention of US Defense Secretary Robert Gates and other individuals from the Bush administration is confirmation of the president’s weakness, the al Qaeda chief argued.

Bin Laden urges Americans to pressure White House leaders to cease the wars and US support to Israel, rather than succumb to what he called “the ideological terrorism” exercised by neo-conservatives.

“The bitter truth is that the neo-conservatives continue to cast their heavy shadows upon you,” he insisted. If the wars are not ended, “all we will do is to continue the war of attrition against you on all possible axes, like we exhausted the Soviet Union for ten years until it collapsed with grace from Allah the Almighty and became a memory of the past,” bin Laden vowed. IntelCenter said bin Laden typically releases such a statement annually around September or October.

The last audiotape by bin Laden was released June 3. In that missive he scorned Obama’s overture to the Islamic world and warned of decades of conflict ahead.

That audiotape aired on Qatar’s Al-Jazeera news channel less than an hour after Obama landed in Saudi Arabia, bin Laden’s home country, at the start of a Mideast tour.

Obama “has followed the steps of his predecessor in antagonizing Muslims… and laying the foundation for long wars,” bin Laden said in the June release, referring to deadly clashes in Pakistan between the US-backed government and militants.

“Obama and his administration have sowed new seeds of hatred against America,” said at the time the al Qaeda leader whose network carried out the 9/11 attacks in the United States.

“Let the American people prepare to harvest the crops of what the leaders of the White House plant in the next years and decades.”

Bin Laden has a 50-million-dollar bounty on his head and has been in hiding for the past eight years.