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Monday, September 14, 2009

Lynch on Bin Laden's Latest

Marc Lynch offers his take on Usama bin Laden's latest tape. As he notes, so many jihadist websites went down over the September 11 anniversary — that happened last year too, presumably courtesy of certain intelligence sources — as a result the tape, presumably intended for the anniversary, arrived a few days late and with no English subtitles. (I still haven't found a copy of the audio, but most news sites give quotations.) [UPDATE: Juan Cole has the full text in English.]

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