13 SEP.Two days after the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, Osama bin Laden released a new audio recording titled "Message to the American People," news agencies reported Monday. The 11-minute 20-second message appeared on the Arabic Web site As-Sahab and offered justifications for al-Qaeda's attacks eight years ago. "Amongst some other injustices," Bin Laden says on the tape, U.S. support for Israel motivated the terrorist attacks. He criticized Barack Obama, saying that the new president has sowed new seeds of hatred in the Muslim world.
.Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden described President Barack Obama as "powerless" to stop the war in Afghanistan, and Americans' inability to grasp why the Sept. 11 attacks occurred has "cost you a lot without any result whatsoever." Bin Laden, said current White House officials are merely following the strategy of former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney to "promote the previous policies of fear to market the interest of big companies."