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The Saudi-born militant said the global financial crisis had exposed the waning US influence in world affairs and would in turn weaken its ally Israel.
"Our brothers in Palestine, you have suffered a lot.... the Muslims sympathise with you in what they see and hear. We, the mujahideen, sympathise with you also..." bin Laden said in the tape entitled 'A Call for Jihad to Stop the Aggression against Gaza'.
"We are with you and we will not let you down. Our fate is tied to yours in fighting the Crusader-Zionist coalition, in fighting until victory or martyrdom."
The Palestinian death toll from a 19-day-old Israeli offensive to crush the Islamist Hamas movement in Gaza has risen to 971, causing widespread anger among ordinary Arabs and Muslims. Israel says 13 Israelis have been killed by rockets or mortars from Gaza.
In the 22-minute tape, bin Laden said that the United States was losing its dominant position in the world and that this was due to al Qaeda's campaign.
"The jihad of your sons against the Crusader-Zionist coalition is one of the key reasons for these destructive effects among our enemies," bin Laden said in the tape that was dated in the current Islamic month.
"God has bestowed us with the patience to continue the path of jihad for another seven years, and seven and seven... The question is, can America continue its war with us for several more decades to come? Reports and evidence would suggest otherwise."
The authenticity of the tape, produced by al Qaeda's media arm As-Sahab, could not immediately be verified but the voice sounded like that of bin Laden.
Bin Laden last appeared in an audio tape in May and also focused on Gaza, calling on Muslims to try to help end the blockade of the area.
The al Qaeda leader has placed growing emphasis on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in recent years and Wednesday's audio tape was accompanied by a still of bin Laden and a picture of al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, Islam's third holiest shrine.
Behind the Sept. 11, 2001 attack on US cities, al Qaeda has regularly called for attacks on the Jewish state.
Al Qaeda is widely blamed for a suicide attack on an Israeli-owned hotel in Kenya and a simultaneous failed attempt to shoot down an Israeli charter jet near Mombasa airport in 2002.
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Dear Osama, Your sacrifices for the sake of Islam can never go waste. Inshallah sooner or later the Americans will cripple and the past glory of Islam will be restored. Dont worry the things are going our way God Willing.
This guy doesn't have any right to utter word GOD.
Is Osama Bin Ladin actually alive? I have many acquaintances working in the offices of his brothers at Jeddah: Ashok from Marathwada, Suresh Mehta,Kumar shah and Ashwin Patel from Gujarat, Gopal sharma from Madhyapradesh, Govind Shetty and Narendra Gowda from Karnataka,I am worried about them, but they still stick to their jobs in the Bin Laden Co. they had told me that they are receiving a huge salary, and they will not get 1/5 of it if they were working in India. I wonder why our national patriotic leaders do not rush to accept them to be employed in their birth places
He dude, Osama's family have disowned him long back. So there is nothing wrong in working such companies.
This is another CIA-Mossad stunt to make World believe that Osama is still alive. Mossad wants Obama to stay engaged against Afghanistan, so that they (Zionist Israelis) can start their shelling deep into Lebanon and Syria as well (creating another false-flag operation or false pretext that these nations hit first). Osama is long dead. CIA-Mossad use his Phantom for their own interest.
And we call "sohad" against Gaza... LOL...These islamic idiots will never change....