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Al-Qaida Releases Posthumous bin Laden Audio

   VOA News  May 19, 2011
   This image from video provided by the SITE Intelligence Group shows the
   image displayed during a posthumous audio message from slain al-Qaida
   leader Osama bin Laden released by the terrorist group's media arm,
   as-Sahab, May 18, 2011

Photo: AP

   This image from video provided by the SITE Intelligence Group shows the
   image displayed during a posthumous audio message from slain al-Qaida
   leader Osama bin Laden released by the terrorist group's media arm,
   as-Sahab, May 18, 2011

   Al-Qaida has released an audio recording by Osama bin Laden made just
   days before his death.
   A U.S.-based monitoring service, SITE, said Wednesday that in the tape,
   bin Laden praises revolutions sweeping the Middle East and North Africa
   and says he thinks "the winds of change" will spread across the entire
   Muslim world.
   In the 12-minute message, bin Laden expresses joy at the victory of
   uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia. He addresses the revolutions and offers
   guidance and advice.
   Bin Laden also accuses the region's rulers of making themselves into
   idols and using the media to maintain power.
   U.S. special forces killed bin Laden on May 2 in a raid on his compound
   in northern Pakistani garrison city of Abbottabad.

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