New Bin Laden Tape Blasts Obama

Tape Terror Al Qaeda Chief Says U.S. President Has Planted Seeds Of "Hatred And Vengeance"; U.S. Confirms Authenticity..

by CBS/AP

Published: Wed, June 03, 2009 - 10:26 am CST

(CBS/AP)
A new audio tape from Osama bin Laden criticizes President Barack Obama for planting seeds of "hatred and vengeance toward Americans" and warns of "new long wars."

The tape, aired on Arabic news network al Jazeera Wednesday, blasts the U.S. president for his role in Pakistan's military operation against Taliban forces in the Swat Valley. The message came as Mr. Obama touched down in Saudi Arabia on the first leg of a Mideast trip to shore up diplomatic relations in the region.

U.S. intelligence officials confirmed the authenticity of tape but said "there's no reason at this point to believe that any specific or credible threat is contained" in the message, reports CBS News White House correspondent Peter Maer.

"There has never been a fake bin Laden tape," a U.S. counterterrorism official told CBS News. "In the past, he has timed the release of the messages to major events. So it's unsurprising that he chose this particular week."

"While the words are different, this latest message recycles many of the broad themes of messages past," the official added.

Bin Laden accuses Mr. Obama of ordering Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari to "prevent the people of Swat from implementing the Shari’a law by fighting and killing them through bombings and destruction. This has led one million Muslims, elderly people, women and children, to flee their homes and villages and live in tents after they’d been living with dignity in their homes.

"This simply means that Obama and his administration have planted new seeds of hatred and vengeance toward America," the translated message continues. "The number of these seeds equates that of those who have suffered and been made homeless in the Swat valley and the tribal areas in northern and southern Waziristan as well as those who sympathize with them.

"In this manner, Obama appears to have followed the same path taken by his predecessor, in creating more enmity towards Muslims, and adding on to the fighting enemies, thus paving the way for new long wars.

"Let the American people prepare to continue harvesting what their White House leaders grow, in the years and decades to come." (Read more on CBS News Investigates: Terror Monitor)

Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, said it is "ludicrous" to suggest anyone but al Qaeda and the Taliban are responsible for the refugee crisis in Pakistan.

Holbrooke spoke during a joint press conference with Zardari in Islamabad.

Pakistan says about 3 million people have been uprooted from their homes by a month-old campaign to drive militants out of the northwestern Swat valley.

Bin Laden’s statement comes a day after al Qaeda’s number two, Ayman al Zawahri, said President Obama was not welcomed in Egypt, where he is expected to address Muslims on Thursday.

Bin Laden also implied that the people displaced by the Pakistani offensive would be even more driven to attack America than the 9/11 hijackers.

“I have words that I would like to address to America. Some of the wise and fair people in the research centers and other institutions over there might deduct from what I say here the reasons that push people to want to attack and get their vengeance against America, at a time when the agents of the big companies at the White House don’t pay much attention to what we say.

“I say the free men who carried out the attacks of 9/11 did not taste the bitterness of being thrown out of their homes and their land made to live in tents and beg for food. Those 19 only heard that such suffering has been inflicted upon their brethren in Palestine, through American weapons and Zionist hands. They thus left their schools and universities and seized the first opportunity to support the oppressed over there [and] to punish the oppressors in America. So imagine what would they have done if they had witnessed such agony and distress themselves?"

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barefootangel Says:

Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 5:34 pm

obama will end up having tea with bin laden to show him how much he loves the muslims and we can all be muslims since Americans aren’t Christians anyway. Make sense out of that! the bfa

BSB1958 Says:

Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 4:02 pm

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
Karl Marx

ickthus Says:

Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 3:48 pm

Kx has a good point. If we had better ed. for our kids she would be able to have a clue as to what she posts. But with more and more kids thinking like her, we will have to learn the hard way again. Those who cannot or will not remember there past are doomed to repeat it. neo-socialist thinking will do us in if we are not careful. obama has us going there. Wake up sheep.

Bikermike Says:

Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 3:27 pm

I say kill em all and let god sort em out!

BSB1958 Says:

Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 3:06 pm

Sorry—I get excited and my fingers don"t work right

BSB1958 Says:

Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 3:04 pm

Hey Kx that had that episode happened in your back yard you see this differently I think.

KxVicious Says:

Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 1:05 pm

BSB, why don’t we do that on your tax dollars and not mine?

I’d rather see a better education system than the US policing the world.

BSB1958 Says:

Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 1:00 pm

Such reverential Indifference to human life from somebody who stood behind suicide assassins thrown
against innocent people on a beautiful day can only be called a Murderer. He needs to be hunted down like the
animal he his and destroyed. Those kind of Vermin only understand strength. Bin Laden is evil incarnate and the sooner
we eliminate him the better.
He has the smug look of a silver spoon fed Jackal who spews hatred to the whole world and hides in
caves, and behind the scenes as if he is a coward

bobcat Says:

Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 6:31 am

I knew it would be just a matter of time before Obama and Osama went head to head against each other being jealous of one another and battling it out for popularity and control in the Muslim community. It’s all clear in the Osama tapes and in Obama’s remarks / actions of his main interests. What a tangled web he weaves. The fallout will soon be critical and massive in my opinion but what can we do now?..... NOTHING!