Bin Laden tape 'heavy-handed attempt' to influence US election

Experts around the world called the videotape from Osama bin Laden a heavy-handed attempt to influence the impending US election, while warning against dismissing it as just propaganda.

“It’s a very crude but sinister attempt to try to influence the presidential election,” said Paul Wilkinson, chairman of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at St. Andrews University in Scotland.