You gotta wonder if the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera (essentially a pan-Arab version of CNN) is willingly letting themselves be used for propaganda purposes by the Taliban/OBL. They had this video for a week or two, then let it out at the exact moment it would have maximum value for Bin Laden. Freedom of the press is virtally non-existant in Arab countries, though, and maybe the're just doing what they think they have to in order to get the story.

By the way, I wouldn't want to be one of those hapless Taliban foot soldiers at the front or second defensive line when the next American B52 approaches!!