CAIRO, Egypt - Osama bin Laden, in a new audio message posted Wednesday, condemned the publication of drawings that he said insulted the Prophet Muhammad and warned Europeans of a "severe" reaction to come.
In the message, Bin Laden described the cartoons as taking place in the framework of a "new Crusade" against Islam, in which he said the Pope has played a "large and lengthy role."
"You went overboard in your unbelief and freed yourselves of the etiquettes of dispute and fighting and went to the extent of publishing these insulting drawings," he said, according to a transcript released by the SITE Institute, another U.S. group that monitors ****** messages. "This is the greater and more serious tragedy, and reckoning for it will be more severe."
Adam Raisman, senior analyst at the SITE Institute, said that the message's release coincides with an increased buzz in online jihadi forums calling for revenge against Europe over the cartoons."How it saddens us that you target our villages with your bombing: those modest mud villages which have collapsed onto our women and ********. You do that intentionally, and I am witness to that," he said, according to SITE. "All of this (you do) without right and in conformity with your oppressive ally who — along with his aggressive policies — is about to depart the White House."
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In the message, Bin Laden described the cartoons as taking place in the framework of a "new Crusade" against Islam, in which he said the Pope has played a "large and lengthy role."
"You went overboard in your unbelief and freed yourselves of the etiquettes of dispute and fighting and went to the extent of publishing these insulting drawings," he said, according to a transcript released by the SITE Institute, another U.S. group that monitors ****** messages. "This is the greater and more serious tragedy, and reckoning for it will be more severe."
Adam Raisman, senior analyst at the SITE Institute, said that the message's release coincides with an increased buzz in online jihadi forums calling for revenge against Europe over the cartoons."How it saddens us that you target our villages with your bombing: those modest mud villages which have collapsed onto our women and ********. You do that intentionally, and I am witness to that," he said, according to SITE. "All of this (you do) without right and in conformity with your oppressive ally who — along with his aggressive policies — is about to depart the White House."
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