AP: Osama Looking Dapper, Conciliatory Yet Threatening
The Associated Press has sold their souls. Here’s a real jaw-dropper of an article by Susan Sevareid in which Osama bin Laden is lauded as a world leader, tanned, fit, rested, and ready for action; now if only the evil United States would stop persecuting the poor man: Osama: U.S. Must Stop Threatening Muslims.
CAIRO, Egypt - Osama bin Laden changed his usual sharply militant rhetoric to address Americans in a more conciliatory tone — though one tinged with threat — in his new video, dropped off at the Pakistan offices of Al-Jazeera television days ahead of the U.S. presidential election.
While the message was directed to Americans, the video aired Friday had something to encourage al-Qaida supporters around the world: the image of bin Laden — dressed in dignified, clean robes — looking and sounding fit, firmly in control and well informed on current events despite three years on the run from U.S. forces.
In the video, bin Laden acknowledged for the first time directly that he ordered the Sept. 11 attacks and said he did so because of injustices against the Lebanese and Palestinians by Israel and the United States.
He said the United States must stop threatening the security of Muslims if it wants to avoid “another Manhattan” and while he did not directly warn of new attacks, he warned: “There are still reasons to repeat what happened.”