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Timeline:
Al-Qaeda tapes
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Thursday
19 January 2006 9:22 PM GMT
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The US has rejected all offers of a truce from al-Qaeda
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Below is a
timeline of tapes and videos released by Osama bin Laden, the leader of
al-Qaeda.
April
23, 2006: In an
audio tape received by Al Jazeera, the al-Qaeda leader accuses the
West of waging a "crusader war" on Islam. He said: "Those
that have wronged the Prophet should be handed over to al-Qaeda for
judgment."
January
19, 2006: In excerpts
of an audio tape aired by Al Jazeera, Bin Laden says al-Qaeda is making
preparations for attacks in the United States and offers a truce on
"fair" but undefined conditions.
December 27, 2004: In an audio tape, Bin Laden calls on Iraqis
to boycott the January 30, 2005 elections and
names as his
Iraq deputy Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian
blamed for many
attacks against US-led forces in Iraq.
December
16, 2004: In an audio
tape posted on a website, Bin Laden exonerates fighters of responsibility
for violence in Saudi Arabia and calls on them to stop the flow of oil to
the West.
October 29, 2004: Al Jazeera broadcasts a video of Bin Laden
saying the US can avoid another attack like those of September 11, 2001, if it
stops threatening the security of Muslims.
May 6, 2004: In an online audio tape released on Islamic
forums, Bin
Laden offers rewards of gold for the killing of
US and UN
officials.
April 15, 2004: Bin Laden offers a truce to European
countries that do not attack Muslims. He vows revenge against the United
States for the assassination by Israel of Sheikh Ahmed Yasin, the founder
of Hamas.
January 4, 2004: Bin Laden says on an audio tape broadcast on
Al Jazeera that the US-led war in Iraq is the beginning of the occupation of
Arab Gulf states for their oil. He calls on Muslims to keep fighting in the
Middle East.
September 10, 2003: In the first video image of bin Laden
in nearly two years, he is shown walking through rocky terrain with his deputy,
Ayman al-Zawahiri. Two taped messages accompanied the video.
In one, a voice purporting to be Bin Laden's praises the "great damage to
the enemy" on September 11 and mentions five hijackers by name. In the
other, a voice said to be that of al-Zawahiri threatens more attacks on
Americans.
April 7, 2003: In an audio tape obtained by The Associated
Press in Pakistan, Bin Laden exhorts Muslims to rise up against Kuwait, Saudi
Arabia and other governments he says are agents of America, and calls for
bombers to attack US and British interests.
February 13, 2003: An audio tape of Bin Laden reading a poetic
last will and testament is aired on the British-based Al-Ansaar news agency. Bin
Laden says he wants to die a martyr in a new attack against the US.
February 11, 2003: Bin Laden calls on Iraqis to carry out bomb attacks
against Americans and defend themselves
against a US
attack in a tape broadcast on Al Jazeera.
November 2002: Al Jazeera broadcasts an audio tape in
which a voice
attributed to Bin Laden says the "youths of
God" are
planning more attacks against the US.
December 13, 2001: The US defence department releases a
video of Bin
Laden in Afghanistan on 9 November 2001, saying the destruction of the 9/11
attacks exceeded even his "optimistic" calculations.
Agencies
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