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According to the BBC, Osama bin Laden [number one on all of the charts with a bomb] found time for another recording date and just released his latest cut: Bin Laden urges Pakistan holy war
Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden has called on Pakistanis to overthrow President Pervez Musharraf.
In a new audio tape, Bin Laden promised what he called retaliation for the storming of the radical Red Mosque in the capital, Islamabad, in July.
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It is not the first time the al-Qaeda leader has called for the overthrow of President Musharraf.
But the BBC defence and security correspondent Rob Watson says Osama Bin Laden may well consider this a timely intervention given the current political turmoil in Pakistan and growing unpopularity of President Musharraf.
Indeed, our correspondent says, a poll released earlier this month suggested the Pakistani president was less popular in his own country than the al-Qaeda leader himself.
For more background on the Red Mosque you should read Manan Ahmed’s piece, The Mosque and the Ballot, and the Wikipedia entry on General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, the man most responsible for building it.
To figure out why General Zia would do such a thing, consult Dr. Cole’s Fisking the “War on Terror”.
