New Osama Bin Laden Tape Claims Responsibility For Christmas Attack

by Joe Coscarelli | 9:40 am, January 24th, 2010

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An audio recording purported to be Osama bin Laden surfaced Sunday on Al-Jazeera’s website and features the al Qaeda leader claiming responsibility for the attempted terrorist attack aboard flight 253 to Michigan on Christmas Day, CNN is reporting. On CNN’s State of the Union, White House adviser David Axelrod said he could not confirm the tape’s authenticity, but noted that it features “the same hollow justification for the slaughter of innocent people.”

The message on the recording is one the United States has grown accustomed to hearing, though the media is often careful when it comes to rebroadcasting the violent and hateful rhetoric.

“”It is not fair to enjoy that kind of life while our brothers in Gaza live in the worst of miseries,” bin Laden says, noting that “the United States will not dream of enjoying safety until we live it in reality in Palestine.” He goes on to speak of the attempted airline attack: “The message intended to be sent to you was through the hero fighter Omar Farouq, may God release him, confirming an earlier message that the [September] 11th heroes delivered to you and it was repeated before and after [that event].”

According to CNN, this would be bin Laden’s first contact in seven months after six messages in 2009, the last of which came on September 25th.

As the Sunday show’s progress on the cable networks, the tape provides a new topical way of speaking frankly about homeland security and we’ll be watching closely in order to assess the media reaction.

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http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Van-Veen/617590041 Chris Van Veen

The worry for Obama has to be this: The Christmas Day bomber sits in the Mayberry Jail, in the hands of Barney Fife. He ‘lawyered-up’ and got ‘silent.’ If increased terror worries manifest themselves in another airliner attack, then Obama will be seen as having ‘played politics’ with people’s lives. Thanks to administration bumbling and a political bias, Obama will have allowed the Christmas Day bomber to hold on to sensitive intelligence that could have prevented further acts of airborne terrorism. There’s no positive way for Gibbs or Axelrod to spin that. The world will be mad at Obama, never mind just this country.
disgusted

He STILL has “them” – ‘running in circles’!
timzank

And BJL411 blames it all on fox news in 5,4,3,…..
Ted

Facebook – “Lawyered up”, got “silent?” I see you’ve memorized the right-wing talking points. Maybe the next time you’re in court you’ll wish you had “lawyered up.” Do you have access to intelligence reports? (I’ll just leave that alone for now). The truth is you don’t have a clue what information they obtained from “The Christmas Day” bozo. You are the one spinning some story you concocted in your head but …nice try.
liberalontogeny

Here’s the AP reporting on this:

“The bomb had severely burned Abdulmutallab but he was still conscious. As he was taken from the scene, federal agents repeatedly interviewed him or heard him speak to others. But when they read him his legal rights nearly 10 hours after the incident, he went silent.”

“The FBI interview with the suspected bomber lasted about 50 minutes. Before they began questioning Abdulmutallab, the FBI agents decided not to give him his Miranda warnings informing him of his right to remain silent.”

10 hours after the incident, he went silent
timzank

Ohhhh, the irony of it all. If an air marshal had been on board and simply shot this yutz in the forehead, obviously it would be case closed. Also, had we spotted aforementioned yutz in Pakistan or Afghanistan on a hillside reading his copy of “Terrorism For Dummies Vol #4″ we could have splattered his ass all over the hillside with a drone, again case closed. He’s the enemy and we kill the enemy before he kills us.

Cool.

BUT…In a strange twist of fate in this “Hopey-Changey” jurisdictional fairy land we live in, the passengers didn’t kill the terrorist, they just subdued him. So now, this enemy soldier gets whisked off the plane, given all the rights of an American citizen, and will spend at least a few years at our expense with his own Johnny Cochran wannabe clogging up the court system, indoctrinating his new pals behind bars, and in general helping Al Queada keep our populace in a constant state of unease and fear.

This is what you get when you elect the equivalent of a high school student council to lead your country, let’s just hope most of us are still alive to vote in some adults and a real administration in 2012 .
pyrope

Usama bin Laden is IMPOTENT. if he’s still alive, he’s afraid to come out into the sunshine. But, for all you libs out there, remember this: Had your boy Clinton had more interest in fighting terrorism than chasing skirts, bin Laden would have been taking the big dirt nap now and all the events since the bombing of the USS Cole would NEVER have happened.

I would be less than fair if I didn’t also remark about George W. Bush’s failures to kill the sub-human leader of al Qaeda, but he was too busy acting on flawed intelligence and chasing down WMDs that didn’t exist in Iraq.

One really cannot place all the blame on Bush for the detour through Iraq, because it was Madame Halfbright who gutted our intelligence network in the Middle East that gave us the flawed intelligence that Bush acted on, and it was P-nut Carter who overthrew the Shah of Iran (our staunch ally) that resulted in the 444 day capture of the US embassy and led to the rise of Ahmadinejad.

Note to ted: When are you going to stop hating conservatives and start loving the US? You’ve apparently got your head so far up your alimentary canal that you need a plexiglas belly button to see where you’re going. You, more than most libs, act as though stupidity were a virtue.
The Real Royal King

I agree with you, in large measure, although I am less certain Bin Laden is impotent at this point. I think time may be passing him by, but we’re not there yet.
Karen79

It’s sad that no one knows what’s going on. None of these stupid politicians can even decide what the video even means. Check it out: http://www.newsy.com/videos/interpreting-the-new-bin-laden-tape. It’s almost pathetic.