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A Green al-Qaeda?

By | 01.29.10 | 8:37 am

When Osama bin Laden is so desperate for international support that he’ll start making an environmentalist case against the United States, something is going very right. Still, Get Energy Smart Now is trying to stop the stupidity before it starts:

Turning the world back to the 12th century,

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Bin Laden: Back to the Old Time Religion

By | 09.14.09 | 4:18 pm

The NEFA Foundation has a translation of the new Osama bin Laden tape. bin Laden’s message might even be considered cynical in light of how he keeps going back to the radical-Salafist well, particularly on the role of Israel in al-Qaeda’s imagination. (“First, I say: we have shown and More…

Irony and the New bin Laden Tape

By | 09.14.09 | 8:56 am

Osama bin Laden just released a new diatribe, available for download here if you’re interested, and it apparently hits the notes you’d expect: endless war if the United States continues the fight in Afghanistan; President Obama is no different than George W. Bush; “neo-conservatives and the Israel Lobby” More…

Bin Laden Calls For Jihad In Gaza

By | 01.14.09 | 8:40 am

CNN reports that Osama bin Laden’s latest audiotape is about Gaza:

The message is “an invitation” from bin Laden to take part in “jihad to stop the aggression against Gaza.”

The terrorist leader has attempted to hijack the cause of the Palestinians before, so this was probably inevitable.