new Osama bin laden audio Message: Join the insurgency in Iraq and Palestine

'Bin Laden' in Palestinian call
A new audio message purportedly from al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden
urges Palestinian militants to join the insurgency in Iraq.
"The nearest jihad battlefield to support our people in Palestine is
the battlefield of Iraq," the speaker said.

The message, aired on al-Jazeera TV, comes a day after Bin Laden
threatened the EU over the reprint of a cartoon deemed offensive to
Muslims.

The messages coincide with the fifth anniversary of the US invasion of
Iraq.

'Fire and iron'

In the second message, the speaker dismissed attempts at
reconciliation in the Middle East.

"Palestine cannot be retaken by negotiations and dialogue, but with
fire and iron," he said.

The speaker said Arab leaders were accomplices in Israeli attacks on
Gaza.

"We tell our brothers in Palestine who could not join the jihad in the
land of al-Quds (Jerusalem), to get rid of illusions of political
parties and groups which are mired in trickery of the blasphemous
democracy and to take their positions among the ranks of the
mujahideen in Iraq," he said.

The message comes weeks after a major Israeli offensive in Gaza in
response to militant rocket attacks. Some 125 people died in the
offensive.

It is not clear when the messages were recorded.

The authenticity of the first message was confirmed in the US by the
CIA and White House.

"It can be said with a high degree of confidence that it is in fact
the voice of Osama Bin Laden," a CIA official told Reuters news
agency.

A previous audio message attributed to the al-Qaeda leader appeared in
November. He has not been seen on video since October 2004.

He is believed to be in hiding in the rugged border area between
Pakistan and Afghanistan.




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Published: 2008/03/20 20:09:33 GMT

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