Ok here's the deal...

Tom posts Debkafile news which are written up over coffee and Bagels in Tel Aviv.

Well, let's look at the Bin Laden message:

The speaker on the tape broadcast on Al-Jazeera television referred to the Oct. 12 Bali bombing, the killing last month of a Marine in Kuwait, the bombing of a French oil tanker last month off Yemen and the Chechen hostage taking in Moscow, saying the attacks were "undertaken by sons who are zealous in the defense of their religion."



He said those attacks and others were "only a reaction in response to what (U.S. President George W.) Bush, the pharaoh of the age, is doing by killing our sons in Iraq and what America's ally Israel is doing, bombarding houses with women and old people and children inside with American planes."

"Our people in Palestine are being killed, are being subjected to the worse kind of suffering for almost a century now," the speaker said. "If we defend our people in Palestine the world is disturbed and allied against Muslims under the banner of combating terrorism."

The speaker then castigated U.S. allies that have joined the war against terrorism, specifically Britain, France, Italy, Canada, Germany and Australia.

After listing those countries, he warned: "If you don't like looking at your dead...so remember our dead, including the children in Iraq."



When I heard this...I knew exactly who created it ;-)

Bin Laden linked with Iraq. ;-)

Britain, France, Italy, Canada, Germany and Australia have been threatened.
The Chechen hostage taking in Moscow has been covered, saying the attacks were "undertaken by sons who are zealous in the defense of their religion."

Look at Putin's recent mood.

I'd say it will be a very effective PR piece...the only thing "Bin Laden" could have added was to threaten to blow up the Eiffel Tower and the new Reichstag if Saddam is removed from power.

If you need to rally the troops and align a coalition...

Who ya gonna call.

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