Dead Osama Claims Resonsibility for Flubbed Underwear Bombing

Reuters
January 24, 2010

Editor’s note: Reuters uses discredited FBI photo recreation on fairy tale.

[efoods]Osama bin Laden claimed responsibility for the December 25 failed bombing of a U.S.-bound plane and promised more attacks on the United States, in an audio tape Al Jazeera said on Sunday was of the Al Qaeda leader.

Bin Laden, speaking days ahead of major international meetings on how to deal with militancy in Afghanistan and Yemen, said the attempt to blow up the plane as it neared Detroit was a continuation of al Qaeda policy since September 11, 2001.

“The message sent to you with the attempt by the hero Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is a confirmation of our previous message conveyed by the heroes of September 11,” bin Laden said on the tape in a message addressed “from Osama to (U.S. President Barack) Obama.”

“If it was possible to carry our messages to you by words, we wouldn’t have carried them to you by planes,” bin Laden said.

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This article was posted: Sunday, January 24, 2010 at 11:36 am

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