Osama bin Laden strikes in the war of ideas

Osama bin Laden's recently acquired video is fascinating on a number of levels - mostly relating to the text - which is available here. The political message is interesting and clearly one would find many of the "al-Qaeda" leader's observations difficult to refute. This is an "evil" man if you like. However, millions would disagree with us on that one, so maybe it's important for our "leaders" to address some of bin Laden's "unfair assertions" .

It's amusing to note - once you have bothered to read the pdf - that the news headlines concerning this "controversy" packed video range from:

Latest video reveals new look for bin Laden
to
US: No Overt Threats In Osama Video
to
Osama's latest video appears to be new

Like Gordon Brown might say [as an afterthought, subsequent to approving a failed, disastrous and illegal Iraq war] "it's a war of ideas".

db: Update: Odd ... the video freezes during all references to contemporary events. Possible fake [or rather release of old video tarted up to be 'new'] See more - tx cryptome