Always reliable Al-Jazeera aired a new, purported bin Laden tape in which he refers to the "blockade" by the West of Hamas in Israel/Palestinian territories.

bin Laden refers to the West’s crusader war against Islam; he calls for actions in the Sudan and Dafur.

…The tape broadcast Sunday was the first new message from bin Laden since Jan. 19. That tape was posted in full on a Web site a month later and included a vow by the terrorist chieftain never to be captured alive…

"…"I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don’t want to die humiliated or deceived," bin Laden said, in the 11-minute, 26-second tape…"

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Bin Laden calls for war against UN peacekeepers
…US intelligence officials believe bin Laden is hiding in the mountains on the Afghan-Pakistan border. They say he is separated from Ayman al-Zawahri, his deputy, who is able to issue tapes with greater frequency and is probably now exerting more control over the terror network…

Bin Laden calls United Nations as "infidel" body
Osama bin Laden called the United Nations an "infidel" body used to implement "crusader-Zionist" schemes against Muslims, according to new sections of an audiotape aired on Sunday.

"It is an infidel body and whoever accepts its resolutions becomes an infidel. It is a tool to implement crusader-Zionist resolutions, among which are the resolutions of war against us (Muslims) and those to divide and occupy our land," bin Laden said in the tape aired on Al Jazeera television…

Walid Phares on the new Counterterrorism Blog also provides a post in which he lists the ten main points made by bin Laden.

Additional analysis by Walid Phares:

One more time Al Jazeera pomotes an Usama Bin Laden speech. After airing portions of the Bin Laden audiotape al Jazeera posted large fragments of the “speech” on its web site. This was the longest version possible we were able to have access to. After careful reading, my assessment of the “piece” got reinforced: This is not just another audiotape or videotape of a renegade in some cave. Regardless of who is the speaker and his whereabouts, the 30 minutes long read statement is a declaration, probably as important as the February 1998 declaration of war against America, the Crusaders and their allies.

This is a “state of Jihad address” by a Terror-leader who projects himself as the supreme leader of all Salafi Jihadists in the world. The document provide guidelines and vision to the followers across the continents: A call for mega-terrorism and a fiery delivery of a bloody war in all directions. Not one single civilization and religion got away from Usama’s grapes of wrath: Muslim moderates, Shiites, Christian Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox; Jews, Hindus, Buddhists and Atheists as well. Europeans, Chinese, Indians, Semites, Africans and others were all deciphered as Kuffars, infidels…

bin Laden is seemingly alive and is free to roam the mountains of Pakistan (where I continue to believe he hides) and is at worst, the publicity generator for al Qaeda.  Everytime he speaks or appears, he motivates more and more jihadists to take up arms.  He incites the violence.

Now, who said killing bin Laden isn’t important?

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