 | | Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is seen speaking in this video grab provided to Reuters on Sept. 11, 2007. Bin Laden eulogizes a September 11 hijacker as a rare and magnificent man in a tape released on Tuesday to mark the sixth anniversary of the attacks on the United States. The Al Qaeda leader's voice can be heard over a still image presenting the last testament of Waleed al-Shehri, and praising his role in the attacks. The 47-minute video did not appear to include any moving images of bin Laden, but it did include English subtitles.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo) |
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Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden called for Iraqi insurgents' unity in a new audiotape aired by al-Jazeera television on Monday.
"The interest of the Islamic nation surpasses that of a group," said a speaker presumably to be the leader of al-Qaida.
Calling on Iraqi insurgent factions to avoid divisions, Bin Laden said in the tape that insurgents should admit their mistakes.
"Everybody can make a mistake, but the best of them are those who admit their mistakes," said the speaker, adding that he advises "himself, Muslims in general and brothers in al-Qaida everywhere" not to be extreme.
Bin Laden also warned that duties to unite have not been fulfilled, calling for actions "under a single banner to champion righteousness."
The authenticity of the tape could not be immediately confirmed, but the voice resembled that of bin Laden in previous messages.
However, al-Jazeera did not say how it obtained the tape.
The tape of bin Laden is the latest one since Sept. 20, when the leader of al-Qaida network called for jihad, or holy war, against Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf over his administration's support for the United States.
Source: Xinhua
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