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...Zawahiri tape, combined with the broadcast on Jan. 19 of the first audio diatribe from Osama Bin Laden in more than a year, amounts to a barrage of fresh rhetoric from the top leaders of al-Qaeda-in itself, perhaps a clue that something is afoot. Bin Laden's message offered the U.S. a truce similar to the one he proposed to European nations in October 2004, implying that al-Qaeda would cease attacks if Bush withdrew American troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. Nine months after the offer to Europe, London's subway and bus network was attacked by Islamist...
...Bush, do you know where I am?" Zawahiri taunts in his broadcast, in which he appears thin but relaxed, sitting without his customary Kalashnikov rifle in front of a curtain of black. He responds to his own question, saying, "I am among the Muslim masses." He could be speaking figuratively, meaning that while circumstances require him to lay low, he enjoys popular support. But he could well be speaking literally, in effect bragging that despite the relentless manhunt, he is able to move around in Muslim circles, "enjoying God's blessing...
...Woodruff and his crew had arrived in Baghdad just days earlier to prepare a special news program on the Iraqi conflict to be broadcast after President George Bush's State of the Union address. They were filming in an area outside of Baghdad where rebels have stepped up their attacks against U.S. and Iraq forces. On Jan. 16, rebels in Taji fired a surface-to-air missile shooting down an AH-64 Apache helicopter, killing both of its crewmen...
Osama bin Laden's latest message is most notable for the long silence that preceded it-the audiotape broadcast Thursday on al-Jazeera is the Qaeda leader's first direct communication with his public in a little over a year. The voice on the tape, which the CIA has confirmed is Bin Laden's, addresses himself to the United States, warning that new attacks on U.S. soil are "in the planning stages," but offers a truce predicated on U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan. "It is obvious now that Bush has been misleading the people," says the voice...
Radio host Rush Limbaugh said on his broadcast, “Do you remember what the Owl Club was? Exactly what [Kennedy] was trying to make people think that CAP was at Princeton: a bunch of rich white kids who only wanted to associate with themselves...