Bin Laden Tape Urges Stopping Oil to U.S.

[CountAllVotes]

Osama bin Laden claims to have bled the Soviet Union into bankruptcy as an Islamic guerrilla fighter in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Could he do the same to another hated superpower -- the United States?

The al-Qaida leader's latest purported communication drove home the point by calling on militants to stop the flow of oil to the West and praising a Dec. 6 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil producer.

In an audiotape posted on an Islamic Web site Thursday, a man who U.S. officials believe was bin Laden accused Westerners of subjugating the Middle East to plunder its oil.

"Go on and try to prevent them from getting oil," the speaker said. "Concentrate your operations on that, especially in Iraq and the Gulf."

It was believed to be the first time a purported bin Laden tape in effect called for attacks on the oil industry. But he has flaunted the economic theme before, recalling in his most recent video how Afghan mujahedeen "bled Russia for 10 years, until it went bankrupt" and taunting the U.S. government over the size of its budget deficit -- which peaked at $413 billion last year.

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/041218/bin_laden_economic_war_3.html

[cornfedyank]

1. i wish this country had the guts to say f**k em...f**k their oil.

we need thought that sees solutions for the next hundred/thousand years , not the past.

i wish john lennon still wrote songs.

we should learn to survive as a species.

[TO Kid]

2. Raise foot and aim

Without the oil we wouldn't even know he existed- his daddy made the family fortune by servicing the Saudi oilpatch.

[bahrbearian]

3. He had help from Reagan ! Now he's helping Chimpy.

[TheDonkey]

4. Did the media even cover this tape?

Or did they ejeculate all over the place like they did duing the pre-election Osama surprise to scare Americans. I haven't heard about him producing a new tape.

[MADem]

6. It has received cable coverage

...but the truth is, the VIDEOS get better coverage. There's nothing to look at in an audio tape, and the mindless sheep just have to have something to LOOK at, seeing as most of them don't speak a word of arabic.

[Skittles]

5. they love money more than they hate America

nt

[cliss]

7. I just read Bin Laden's latest tape

in a European paper. The speech was pretty interesting. As usual, the US censors stuff like this, but in Europe you get to read so much stuff that you don't get to read here.

The speech was unique in that Bin Laden does not threaten Europeans like he has in the past.

The rest of the speech is long segments of Bin Laden reading from the Koran. A lot of personal interjections, and threats.

Apparently, he seems to be focusing on Saudi Arabia now.