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Bin Laden Tape: West At War With Islam
Tapes alledgedly from Bin Laden:
– April 23, 2006: In audiotape excerpts, bin Laden accuses the United States and Europe of supporting a “Zionist” war on Islam by cutting off funds to the Hamas-led Palestinian government. He also urges followers to go to Sudan, his former base, to fight a proposed U.N. peacekeeping force.
– Jan. 19, 2006: In audiotape excerpts, bin Laden says al-Qaida is making preparations for attacks in the United States and offers a truce on “fair” but undefined conditions.
– Dec. 27, 2004: In an audiotape, the al-Qaida leader calls on Iraqis to boycott Jan. 30, 2005, elections and names as his Iraq deputy Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian blamed for major terrorist attacks in Iraq.
– Dec. 16, 2004: In an audiotape posted on an Islamic Web site, bin Laden exonerates Islamic militants of responsibility for violence in Saudi Arabia and calls on militants to stop the flow of oil to the West.
– Oct. 29, 2004: In a videotape broadcast by Al-Jazeera, bin Laden says the United States can avoid another attack like those of Sept. 11, 2001, if it stops threatening the security of Muslims.
– May 6, 2004: In an online audiotape released on Islamic forums, bin Laden offers rewards of gold for the killings of U.S. and U.N. officials.
– April 15, 2004: Bin Laden offers a “truce” to European countries that do not attack Muslims. He vows revenge against the United States for the Israeli assassination of Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin.
– Jan. 4, 2004: Bin Laden says on an audiotape that the U.S.-led war in Iraq is the beginning of the “occupation” of Persian Gulf states for their oil. He calls on Muslims to keep fighting a holy war in the Middle East.
– Sept. 10, 2003: In the first video image of bin Laden in nearly two years, he is shown walking through rocky terrain with his top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri. Two taped messages accompanied the video. In one, a voice purporting to be bin Laden’s praises the “great damage to the enemy” on Sept. 11 and mentions five hijackers by name. In the other, a voice said to be that of al-Zawahri threatens more attacks on Americans.
– April 7, 2003: In an audiotape, bin Laden exhorts Muslims to rise up against Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and other governments it claims are “agents of America,” and calls for suicide attacks against U.S. and British interests.
– Feb. 13, 2003: An audiotape of bin Laden reading a poetic last will and testament is aired on the British-based Islamic Al-Ansaar news agency. Bin Laden says he wants to die a martyr in a new attack against the United States.
– Feb. 11, 2003: Bin Laden calls on Iraqis to carry out suicide attacks against Americans and defend themselves against a U.S. attack in a tape broadcast on Al-Jazeera.
– November 2002: Al-Jazeera broadcasts an audiotape in which bin Laden says the “youths of God” are planning more attacks against the United States.
– Dec. 13, 2001: U.S. Defense Department releases a videotape of bin Laden in Afghanistan on Nov. 9, 2001, saying the destruction of the Sept. 11 attacks exceeded even his “optimistic” calculations.
Associated Press reporters Katherine Shrader in Washington and Josef Federman in Jerusalem contributed to this report.