On the Coattails of a Dead Man

Sun, May 18, 2008 at 8:07:21 am PST

Here comes another audiotape in the long-running series of posthumous releases by the world’s most talkative dead man: Islamist Websites Announces Soon-To-Be-Released Osama Bin Laden Speech.

On May 18, 2008, the Islamist website Ikhlaas (www.ek-ls.org) announced that a new speech by Osama Bin Laden would be posted in the near future on the Internet. According to the announcement, the “very strong” speech, produced by Al-Qaeda’s Media Company Al-Sahab, would be an address to the Islamic nation.