Bin Laden Warns Europe of Retaliation

In New Audiotape, Al Qaeda Chief Scolds Europe for Supporting the U.S. in the War in Afghanistan

(CBS/ AP)  Osama bin Laden demanded that European countries pull their troops out of Afganistan in a new audiotape Friday, warning of "retaliation" against them for their alliance with the United States in the war.

The al Qaeda leader denounced NATO airstrikes in Afghanistan that have killed civilians and warned that European countries would be held accountable alongside the Americans unless they pull out.

"A wise person would not waste his sons and money for a gang of criminals in Washington ... In summary, we are not asking too much or an invalid demand, but it would be be fair that you lift your opression and withdraw your troops," bin Laden said, addressing the Europeans.

The audiotape, just under five minutes long, was posted Friday on Islamic militant Web sites. It comes after a series of al Qaeda videos this week directly addressing Germany, threatening attacks over that country's involvement in Afghanistan. Those videos featured a little-known German-Algerian militant and have raised concerns among German authorities ahead of parliamentary elections.

Bin Laden's tape came as a voice-over on a video that had English and German subtitles translating his speech, alogn with a still photo of bin Laden in front of a European map.

Bin Laden predicted that American forces would soon pull out of the country, abandoning their European allies, and warned that al Qaeda would then retaliate against them. It was not clear whether his threat was aimed at European troops in Afghanistan or against European countries themselves.

"It won't be long before the war's dust in Afghanistan clears out, and you will not find a trace of an American (soldier) ... and it will be only us and you left," he said, addressing Europeans.

"How do think you will fare after America pulls out — Allah permitting — allowing us to retaliate from the oppressor on behalf of the oppressed?" he said.

The authenticity of the tape could not be immediatly verified, though the voice resembled that on previous recordings confirmed to be by bin Laden. The video carried the logo of al Qaeda's media arm, Al-Sahab.

The al Qaeda leader is believed to be hiding in the border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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This is a partial transcript provided by IntelCenter of the latest Osama bin Laden message:

...You are aware that oppression topples those who commit it and injustice has unhealthy consequences for the unjust, and that one of the greatest forms of injustice is to kill people without right, yet this is exactly what your governments and soldiers are committing under the umbrella of the NATO alliance in Afghanistan. They are killing women, children and elderly men whose only crime was that Bush became angry with them, although you know that they didn’t perpetrate any aggression against Europe and had no connection to the events in America...

There is a lesson for you in the situation of your sister Georgia. Its people were bombed and humiliated, so they asked for help from America to restore sovereignty over what had been seized from them, but the latter provided them with nothing but empty words; and after they insisted, American ships finally came, not to restore Ossetia and Abkhazia, but rather, to provide what they had no need for: a few tents and a little food and laundry detergent. So reflect on that deeply.

An intelligent man doesn’t waste his money and sons for a gang of criminals in Washington, and it is a shameful thing for a person to be in a coalition whose supreme commander has no regard for human life and intentionally bombs villagers from the air; and I am witness to that. Then the Humvees come along, and when it becomes clear to them that those killed were children, American generosity gushes forth in all its abundance and they give the victims’ relatives $100 for every child killed. This is the painful fact; and is there to be found in Europe a ram for 100 dollars? This is the value of the life of our innocent children in the eyes of Washington and its allies, so what do you expect our reaction to be? Were you to see what your American ally and his helpers did in northern Afghanistan, and how they packed thousands of Taliban into freight containers like sardines and locked them inside until they died or were thrown into the river, you would understand the causes of the bloody events in Madrid and London...

[brucearnold]

On 9/11/01, the all-powerful bankers behind New World Order globalization unleashed their oil and money hungry military-industrial dogs of war to orchestrate the fall of 3 (not 2) WTC towers--the third, not struck by a plane, housing 3 floors of damning SEC records. On that day, we lost 3000 lives (with 1000s more to follow) plus 4 commercial airliners (with all on board) ... and stood by helplessly as something (not wide enough to be a 757) bored a hole in the side of the Pentagon. Yet even today, two elections and a new administration later, our Big Brother government expects us to believe that all of that masterfully-plotted and perfectly-timed destruction was accomplished by 15 Saudis and 4 of their cousins using nothing more than box cutters and big balls. If you believe that, or if you believe we have been told anything close to the Truth about 9/11, then I ask you to Google "911 truth" and "911 peak oil", and objectively evaluate what you find at websites like AE911Truth.org.

[mrjoshcan]

United States troops inside Afghanistan are always controlled by Russian Marxists. Who else in this hemisphere claims the oil and gas to pull off something similar? Lands of the free don't believe that the bold brave seated in Washington was actually after the opium despite proving grounds for bigger weapons of mass destruction at home. Watch a US dwindling withdrawal coincidental towards royal parasympathetics common throughout Afghanistan and the far Middle East. Watch a US dwindling withdrawal coincidental towards royal parasympathomimetic indigenous throughout Afghanistan and the far Middle East.

[prajaowain]

I might as well say it now. They are really wearing out the Osama "Boogieman" thing and of course need bases in Iran so they are going to go after the new "boogieman"nuke dog Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. So then they will have bases in Turkey,Iraq,Afghanistan,Saudi Arabia,Kuwait,Iran. Lets not forget Israel. It might as well be a base.I may have missed a base or two in the middle east?

[prajaowain]

Well said Brianbwb-2009. It is so sad the sheeple are incapable of grasping the truth and are so easily led by their shepherds.

[prajaowain]

September 11 was a very bad event. Of course the U.S had to respond and go after those that planned the event. But the thing is this,these thugs killed 2993 people including themselves that day and as a response we started a war with Iraq and killed over 100,000 and another war with Afghanistan and killed 10s of thousands. Iraq did not participate in the sept 11 attack nor did Afghanistan. Do any of you think we are justified in killing all of these people and starting these ware over the killing of 3000 people? I do not buy it and many people in the u.s do not buy it. Obama pull out of these wars now!

[prajaowain]

Osama is dead. He is being "kept alive" in the minds of Americans by the U.S government to continue building bases in the middle east so China has more of a difficult time going for the oil grab as the U.S declines as a super power over the next 25 years. Its all for the oil grab started by neocon criminals during the Bush administration. Benazir Buhtto even said Osama was dead before she was murdered. Here is the Buhtto video link-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnychOXj9Tg

[prajaowain]

factsearch you better keep searching the facts. there is no conection between any of the people you listed. The only thing these listed have in common is the fact that Washington does not care for these people. Chavez has some very admirable qualities. I would love to see an American version of this guy take on and bring down the insurance companies. All of our hard earned money being put into the pockets of these blood sucking leeches is disgusting to me.

[jaysmouth]

I saw a good shirt the other day.....It said "Osama Bin Laden: Made in the U.S.A"

[Kufr_Akbar]

In this audio UBL does not mention any events later than the relief effort that followed the Georgia-Russia conflict of August 2008. It doesn't focus on Germany, as does other recent AQ threats and propaganda. But I suppose its release might have been timed to precede the Germany election that is coming up, or to precede some terrorist attack already in the works in Europe.

[AlamoDoc]

Bin Runnin', Bin Hidin', Bin Humping Camels, now Bin Beggin' for troops to leave. Pathetic coward. Loosen up that towel on your head. I think it's on a little too tight, because it's cutting off the circulation to that pea-brain of yours.

[Void_Master]

Osama bin Laden is alive and well in Crawford Texas.

[jskul]

Bin Laden will never be caught. I have said for years
he is in eastern Iran.

[chelokee]

Bin Laden you are a yellow coward. You run and hide like a coward. You don't have the guts to come out of your rotten hole and fight like a man. We will find you- you chicken coward. I challenge you to come out like a man and fight. Otherwise we will put a dress on you and you can be the sissy you are. You little sissy coward. You killed so many innocent people, you are a freakin disgrace to the human race. We do not claim you as part of humanity or our beautiful world. We detest you for the yellow coward you are and all of humanity shuns you and are ashamed of you. How does it feel to be hated by 99% of the world you rotten little sissy coward? If you have the guts like you pretend to, then come out and fight, you little sissy coward. Our wonderful U.S. servicemen, so brave and proud, are takin care of business against your evil little army and soon we will find your chicken little sissy butt and bring you to justice. We in the great country of America are so proud of our servicemen, because they have so much courage and strength to do the right thing. This is something you would not understand because you are a chicken sissy yellow coward. We are going to catch your sissy little chicken coward butt and we are going to put your sissy little coward butt in prison. Then we will see how tough you are you little sissy. You must look in the mirror and want to puke. You are going to burn for eternity when you die. Thats a long time to burn Bin Laden. Eternity dude, think about that you little sissy. Osama Sissy Bin Laden-thats your new name dude. Osama Sissy Bin Laden. You are a disgraceful human being.

[John_Merritt]

So is he calling Europe stupid or ignorant? He says they are not smart enough to know whether the Americans can leave the country without them noticing as in 'when the dust clears'. Bin Laden is shrooming if he thinks US will do anything without the Europeans taking part in the process. That is the difference between civilized societies, we tend to honor our friendships and alliances. We do not leave our friends holding the bag.

Bin Laden has not changed one bit and is now trying to pit us against our allies. The sooner this man comes out of hiding and gives himself up, the sooner we will exit their countries. He started it and feels nothing leaving his own people and other countries to take the heat for his mistakes. Just exactly, who is the tyrant and the infidel? He is allowing peeople throughout the landscape of his continent and others to die for his sins against mankind. Does that sound like an honorable man?

[brianbwb-2009]

You are right, he hasn't changed, no dead person ever has.

You think the US hasn't left "allies" holding bags? History is replete with examples of just such betrayal, and America is only the latest practitioner of betrayal. We goaded Saddam into a war with Iran, then sold weapons to both sides, that is quite a bag, and only one of many such.

You really think the CIA will stop trying to control that area if he just gives himself up? The Bush family wants their pipeline, and will kill whomever they need to get it. If it becomes known that he is already dead, then they will simply trot out a new boogieman for your entertainment.

Friendships and alliances? Again ignorance. C'mon, get real, we have violated national and international treaties, and caused death and destruction in countries we regarded once as a "friend" or "ally" for our entire history.

The word "ignorant" means possessing the propensity to ignore. That in itself is not an insult as much as truth, we all ignore things we don't want to deal with.

The stupid part comes when it is considered what it is we ignore. We ignore the trampling upon people by our military industrial gang of criminals, but focus on demonizing those who react to it. It is as if you consider yourself free to slap a person, but that that person does not have the right to react, or defend him/herself from your harm.

No, Bin Laden did not "start it, what we are doing in Afghanistan started at least a decade before 9/11, in fact the CIA used Bin Laden to organize, arm, and train gangs in Afghanistan to resist the Russians, and then to erase their mistake of installing homicidal maniac Gulbuddin Hekmatyar as leader of that country.

Bush's explanation that they simply "hate our freedoms' is a serious lie, and a demonstration of ignorance at it's most stupid.

What they hate is that we consider ourselves free to commit acts of genocide, and other forms of oppression on people because we covet some resource, or geographical position they hold.

I posit that we do not in fact have the right to such "freedom".

The funny part is that everything Bin Laden is alleged to have said in this latest tape is all true, but the reasons he says it are actually in aid of the those who advocate continuation of that which he publicly denounces.

Reverse psychology, which has the stench of CIA all over it, especially this line, tailor-made be quoted by the Limbaugh warmongers for decades "How do think you will fare after America pulls out ? Allah permitting ? allowing us to retaliate from the oppressor on behalf of the oppressed?".

[eyesopenwide]

"A wise person would not waste his sons and money for a gang of criminals in Washington.

Ha Ha Ha! Good one, and kudos to whoever is writing this stuff for the Pentagon! And good timing too since Obama is deciding whether to waste more of our sons and daughters in this purely bloodmoney-making genocidal endless war for endless profits.

But of course we already know that, and if we could stop the war-mongerers, we would, but the sheeple eat up that garbage like it's caviar.

I say we redouble our efforts to catch Emmanuel Goldstein, oops I mean Elvis, oops again, I mean Darth the Cheney, God of Invented War and Invented Bad Guys.

We've always been at war with Eurasia.

Sorry, gotta go get ready for the 2 minute hate.

[veteran71]

What's really amazing is that dullards think this concoction of the CIA is still alive and sending out messages, (designed to scare said dullards into contacting their reps and demanding they continue funding the Chenyburton Wars for Profit in the ME).....funny how that works.....$$$$CHA-CHING$$$$.....
(If you're out of work right now and down to your last can of tuna, rest assured these War Profiteers feel your pain....from pool-side at their waterfront palaces in the Carribean and Dubai)......
Osama = al CIAda

[SusanStoHelit]

So stupid he thinks we are. Yeah, because this terrorist will suddenly leave people alone if we obey this one request ... then the next one... then the next one.

This is an impotent terrorist trying to see if he has any power left.

[democracy1]

World to Bin Laden: "EFF OFF!!!"

[MIO42]

Hi Obama
How's than thousand virgins thing workin fer ya

Whoops can't say that ! Anyway - if it don't work out fer ya
. Wal-Marts hiring in Houston

[MIO42]

Which Wal-Mart?

[stupa3]

Bin what else is new u coward!