Al Qaeda

Osama bin Laden released a five-minute-long audiotape where he urged the Europeans to abandon the war in Afghanistan. “… [I]t 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,” bin Laden said. Video with English captions.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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