Friday November 30, 2007

I've Been Thinking:

Another Osama bin Laden message was broadcast on al Jazeera yesterday.

This is the 4th message bin Laden has transmitted since September 7th.
This time the message was directed toward Europeans.
Bin Laden told Europeans to confront their leaders and to stop their countries from helping the United States in Afghanistan.

There are lessons to be learned about bin Laden from this broadcast:
Bin Laden feels secure enough to issue broadcasts with relative frequency.
Bin Laden feels that European involvement in Afghanistan is significant - and if it was diminished he might have a better chance at defeating US forces there.

Bin Laden knows that European leadership is on side of the United States against him, but he also knows that the masses might be swayed. That is why the used the argument that he alone was responsible for 9-11, that responsibility does not lie with the "innocent women and children that the US murders."

This tape, like with every other bin Laden tape has one objective: to influence opinion through propaganda and disinformation.

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