Bin Laden’s new message

AL-QAIDA’S media wing said last night it will soon release a new message from Osama bin Laden. It said the message will be addressed to European countries.

The announcement by al-Qaida’s as-Sahab media production wing was posted on an Islamic website that commonly airs militant videos.

The posting featured a photograph of the bearded bin Laden dressed in a traditional white Arab robe.

“Soon, if God allows, the lion sheik Osama bin Laden, may God protect him, (will give) a message to the European nations,” it said.

The militant website carrying as-Sahab’s announcement urged Islamic militants to advertise bin Laden’s new message to Western sites to “give them the unseen truth of their failed war”.

Bin Laden has issued four other public statements this year — on September 7, September 11, September 20 and October 22.