19 January 2006 Osama bin Laden tape
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On Thursday, 19 January 2006, an audio tape was released, presumably of Osama bin Laden, warning that al-Qaeda was planning more attacks against the United States. [1] The release of the tape came shortly after the United States' Central Intelligence Agency 's Damadola airstrike in Pakistan, an attack that reportedly led to the deaths of Midhat Mursi , a veteran bomb and chemical expert and the head of an al-Qaeda training camp on the Afghanistan -Pakistan border, Khalid Habib , the al-Qaeda operations chief for Pakistan and Afghanistan, Abdul Rehman al Magrabi , a senior al-Qaeda operations commander, and 15 other people. Civilians were among the others killed, according to the Pakistani provincial government.
On the tape (which may have been recorded a month earlier) [ citation needed ] , bin Laden boasted that "our situation is getting better, while your situation is getting worse." It also threatened future attacks on the United States, and simultaneously offered a "long truce", while not saying what the truce would involve. The White House immediately rejected the truce offer. [2]
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- ↑ "Bin Laden Warns of Attacks in U.S. but Offers Truce". The New York Times . 20 January 2006. ProQuest 93132717 .
- ↑ Fattah, Hassan M. (19 January 2006). "Bin Laden Re-emerges, Warning U.S. While Offering 'Truce' " . The New York Times . Retrieved 19 January 2006 .
External links
- Damadola airstrike
- Transcript of the speech
- Osama "plug" boosts anti-US book
- Pakistan confirms militant deaths
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