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Al-Jazeera airs bin Laden tape appearing to refer to Saddam capture

Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television night aired an audiotape attributed to Osama bin Laden in which he appeared to refer to the December 13 capture of Saddam Hussein and at least one other recent development. Gulf leaders “know that their turn is coming” after seeing “the capture of their former comrade in treason and collaboration with America,” the speaker purported to be the Al-Qaeda terror chief said. The reference to the capture of the ousted Iraqi leader “shows that the tape was recently recorded,” Al-Jazeera’s news anchor said. Listing US-led “conspiracies” against the Islamic nation, the voice also referred to the “Geneva peace initiative”, an unofficial Israeli-Palestinian peace plan which was officially unveiled in the Swiss city on December 1. Full Story