Osama bin Laden offers Europe an out
Osama bin Laden issued another audiotape, this time a short clip (4:48) titled "A Message from Sheikh Osama bin Laden to the People of Europe." The tape is captioned in English and German (the English version is displayed). In the tape, bin Laden urges European nations to withdraw their forces from Afghanistan and end their support of the US. Bin Laden says the US will withdraw from Afghanistan and leave Europe to the predations of al Qaeda:
Would that you reflect on the matter and ask wise and reasonable people, because it won™t be long until the dust of war clears in Afghanistan, at which point you won™t find a trace of any American, because they will have gone away far beyond the Atlantic, Allah permitting, and just us and you will remain, for the oppressed to retaliate from his oppressor.
