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Osama Resurfaces After 3-Year Absence

By U.S. News Staff

September 7, 2007 RSS Feed Print

After a nearly three-year absence, Osama bin Laden resurfaced today in a videotape discussing current events and encouraging Americans to convert to Islam.

 

According to intelligence officials, the al Qaeda leader, with his beard apparently dyed black, makes specific references to France's new president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and Britain's new prime minister, Gordon Brown, as well as to the political debate in the United States over whether to pull out of Iraq. The tape, which does not contain any explicit threats to Americans, is the best evidence since 2004 that bin Laden is still alive.

An Islamic website had advertised the release, which appears to have been timed for the sixth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, but the CIA obtained a copy before it was broadcast.

—Kevin Whitelaw

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