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By Robert Fisk
The Independent UK
Friday 20 January 2006
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So why only on audio? Why no video tape? Is he sick? Yes, say the usual American "intelligence sources". It's the same
old story: Osama bin Laden talks to us from the mouth of a cave, from within a cave, from a basement perhaps, from a
tape almost certainly recorded down a telephone line from far away. Yesterday's message, broadcast as ever by al-Jazeera
television, was a reminder that security - not sickness - decides his method of communication.
We invaded Afghanistan to find Bin Laden and we fight and die in Iraq to kill his supporters - yet still he eludes us,
still he threatens us, still he taunts us.
How much longer can this nonsense go on? President Jacques Chirac warns that France - of all countries - might use
nuclear weapons, if attacked. On whom, I wonder? America blows Pakistani children to pieces and claims it has killed
five wanted men, including a bomb-maker. But there's absolutely no evidence. Bin Laden says that America will be
attacked again unless it accepts a truce in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Weren't we supposed to be winning the "war
on terror"? Oh no, the "experts" tell us, Bin Laden and al-Qa'ida are losing, that's why they want a truce. Some hope.
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