It also tightens borders and aviation security, all aimed at preventing the lapses that preceded the attacks on September 11th, 2001.

Lawmakers from both parties join the president in praising a law that supporters say is needed to disrupt another plot.

The bill becomes law as the man behind that strike resurfaces, this time on the Internet. US officials believe it is Osama bin Laden's voice praising an attack on the US consulate in Saudi Arabia this month.

Secretary of State Colin Powell said bin Laden is taunting his targets, "He's a criminal, he's a terrorist, he's a murderer. And, we're gonna continue to hunt for him until he is captured and brought to justice."

In the audiotape, the fifth al Qaeda message in less than three months, bin Laden again calls for an uprising against the Saudi royal family. He blames the royals for doing oil business with the US and bringing Americans to the Mideast.

But, in Iraq it's not bin Laden but Abu Musab al-Zarqawi whose tactics got Pentagon credit this week for keeping US forces at bay. Terrorism expert Steve Emerson says, "He obviously felt either insecure in terms of where he was hiding out or he felt that he didn't have the relevancy, so bin Laden is now trying to reassert himself in center stage here in the Islamic world."

In the tape bin Laden called Afghanistan home. US officials expect bin Laden still wants to attack the US again on American soil.

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