A new message purportedly from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden calls on European countries to end military cooperation with the US in Afghanistan.
The American tide is ebbing, so it is best for you to press your leaders to change their policies," bin Laden said, addressing Europeans and referring to their countries' military contributions in Afghanistan.
Al Jazeera television broadcast two short excerpts of an audiotape.
Bin Laden said his Taliban allies had no knowledge of plans for the September 11 terror attacks in the US in 2001 - a main reason for the US-led invasion of Afghanistan.
The events of Manhattan were retaliation against the American-Israeli alliance's aggression against our people in Palestine and Lebanon," he said. "I am the only one responsible for it. The Afghan people and government knew nothing about it. America knows that.
"Europe went along with it (the US invasion of Afghanistan) because they had no other alternative, only to be a follower," he said.
"The American tide is ebbing, with God's help, and they will leave back to their countries.
"Therefore it is better for you to stand against your leaders who are dropping in on the White House, and to work seriously to lift the injustice against the believers," he said, accusing US forces and their allies of intentionally killing women and children in Afghanistan.
Al Qaeda announced several days ago that it would release the tape soon.
one thing always bothered me: why was OBL perfectly content with staying hidden even though this meant that american bombs would rain on the people of afghanistan?
each man thinks of his own fleas as gazelles
question authority
It is so sad and it is unfair as the american bombs can be showered anywhere they want.
25:36 And the true servants of the Most Merciful are those who walk the earth with humility and when the ignorant address them, they respond with words of peace.
Osama is just another terrorist created by America.
True knowledge is not mention in relation to how much you memorise and then nerrate, but rather, true knowledge is an expression of piety ( Protecting oneself from what Allah(awj) prohibited and acting upon what he mandated.)
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