Laden warning: Better not kill my man

08:12, March 26, 2010      
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Osama bin LadenOsama bin Laden has warned Al-Qaeda will kill Americans if the mastermind of the 2001 attacks on the United States, Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, is executed, in a tape Al-Jazeera television aired Thursday.
"The White House has declared its wish to execute (Khaled Sheikh Mohammed and his co-accused). The day the United States takes such a decision, it would be also taking the decision that any of you falling into our hands will be executed," bin Laden said in the message.
"Your friend at the White House is still walking in the footsteps of those before (him) in many important matters," including in escalating the war in Afghanistan and "oppressing our prisoners that you are holding, beginning with the mujahid (resistor) hero Khaled al-Sheikh Mohammed," he added.
US politicians have "oppressed us and still do, especially by backing Israel, which occupies the land of Palestine," said the Al-Qaeda chief.
The administration of US President Barack Obama is just weeks away from a landmark decision on whether to try Sheikh Mohammed and his four alleged co-conspirators in a civilian federal court or in a military tribunal.
Source: Agencies
Osama bin Laden threatens Americans in new audio tape: reports
20:55, March 25, 2010      
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A new audio message purportedly from Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has emerged in which he addresses U.S. citizens. The news channel al-Jazeera broadcast the tape in which bin Laden issued a threat to kill any Americans taken captive if the alleged 9/11mastermind Khaled Sheikh Mohammed is executed. The authenticity of the tape has yet to be established.
"The day America will take such decision [to execute Mohamed and any others] it would have taken a decision to execute whoever we capture," the voice on the tape said. The voice on the tape said the U.S president Barack Obama was "following the footsteps of his predecessor", a reference to George W. Bush, the former US president.
"The politicians in the White House were practicing injustice against us and still they are. Especially by supporting Israel in its continuous occupation of Palestine. They used to think that America across the oceans is protected from the rage of the oppressed until our reaction was loudly heard at your home on the 9/11 with God's help," the voice says in the recording.
The last audio recording attributed to bin Laden was released on January 24, 2010. In that tape he claimed responsibility for the attempted attack on an airliner on Christmas Day and vowed there would be further attacks on the U.S. unless President Obama took steps to resolve the Palestinian situation.
Source: Xinhua