Bin Laden: Palestinian cause fuels war

[oberliner]

CAIRO, Egypt - Osama bin Laden said in a new audio recording released Friday that al-Qaida will continue its holy war against Israel and its allies until it liberates Palestine.

The terrorist leader's third statement this year came as President Bush was wrapping up his visit to Israel to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Jewish state.

Bin Laden said the fight for the Palestinian cause was the most important factor driving al-Qaida's war with the West and fueled 19 Muslims to carry out the suicide attacks against the U.S. on September 11.

"To Western nations ... this speech is to understand the core reason of the war between our civilization and your civilizations. I mean the Palestinian cause," said bin Laden in the close to 10 minute audiotape.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080516/ap_on_re_mi_ea/bin_laden_israel;_ylt=AuO8_.WrHIle3lRlQQAeAFOs0NUE

[VWolf]

1. I thought it was the military bases in Saudi Arabia

I wish Dead Osama would make up his mind.

[Igel]

3. Exactly.

He's changing his message to be what it will always have been needed to be, hoping that we'll come to realize that it was always what it will become.

Given confirmation bias as a universal human tendency, it's in the bag.

[Vegasaurus]

2. Bin laden and the rest don't give two shits about the Palestinians

let's not be fooled by his babbling about "liberating Palestine".

There was never a better recruitment job for his martyrs in global jihad, so he and his ilk hope the I/P conflict lasts to eternity.