He’s a fan of democratic uprisings?
A tape recorded by Osama bin Laden before his death in a US special forces raid earlier this month has been released posthumously onto Islamist militant websites.The message, recorded some time in the 10 weeks before the 54-year-old al-Qaida leader was killed in Pakistan on 2 May, praises the Arab spring protest movements across the Middle East and predicts that revolutions will spread.
"I think that the winds of change will blow over the entire Muslim world, God willing," Bin Laden said in the 12-minute clip.
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Bin Laden, who is thought to have been living in a three-storey house in the northern Pakistani town of Abbottabad for up to five years, spoke in highly rhetorical language and avoided the more violent or apocalyptic language of many previous statements.
A full transcript of the tape is yet to be made available but Bin Laden appears not to have threatened the west directly as has previously often been the case.
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"The light of the revolution came from Tunisia. It has given the nation tranquillity and made the faces of the people happy," al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based TV channel reported Bin Laden saying in the tape.
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"Tunisia was the first but swiftly the knights of Egypt have taken a spark from the free people of Tunisia to Tahrir Square. This wasn't a revolution of starving and pain, but a revolution of giving and peace," the Saudi-born fugitive said.
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The recording was widely expected. It was released to jihadist websites by al-Qaida's media arm, al-Sahab.
Scores of recordings were found in the home in Abbottabad where Bin Laden lived.
Maybe we can find one that suits our story line better. If not, we’ll be forced to use the excuse that his focus was:
…the uprisings as opening the door to radical Islam.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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