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Bin Laden, In Posthumous Tape, Declares "Winds Of Change" After Arab Spring


Screengrab from one of the bin Laden home videos

A recording made by Osama bin Laden about a week before he was killed by U.S. Special Forces (and President Obama) has been released by Al Qaeda. According to Al Jazeera, he discusses the uprisings in Middle Eastern countries,
Bin Laden, who was killed in a US raid on May 2, 2011, in Pakistan, telling supporters to "set up an operations room that follows up events and works in parallel ... to save the people that are struggling to bring down their tyrants."

He also says, "The sun of the revolution has risen from the Maghreb. The light of the revolution came from Tunisia. It has given the nation tranquility and made the faces of the people happy... Tunisia was the first but swiftly the knights of Egypt have taken a spark from the free people of Tunisia to Tahrir Square... It has made the rulers worried... I think that the winds of change will blow over the entire Muslim world, with permission from Allah."

ABC News reports, "The tape, released on Islamist websites Wednesday, is the first new bin Laden tape to surface posthumously, but U.S. officials expect others to be released because there were other taped messages found during the search of bin Laden's house." And, as we now know, other media found in Bin Laden's Abbottabad hideout include...porn.

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  • Guest

    That's what my wife calls it when she farts.

  • Guest

    What the fuck does any of that mean?

  • RabbiLaFunque

     It means Gothamist and the rest of the media get page hits by publishing everything that comes out of bin Ladens mouth, even after he's dead.

  • Len_Drexler

    I'm going to help out and say that George W. Bush deserves the credit for catching bin Laden.

  • shocktheday

     Yeah, the credit is he didn't catch Bin Laden, giving Obama the opportunity.

  • Roger_the_Shrubber

     Winds of change or last night's curry?

  • S.D.

    Change??
    "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

  • Logan

     That's not "wind of change" Osama, that's propwash from the Navy Helicopters.

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