NEFA Foundation: New Bin Laden Audio Transcript and "Target America" Report
By Evan Kohlmann
An English-language transcript of Usama Bin Laden's latest audio recording (released late this afternoon), titled "May Our Others Be Bereaved Of Us if We Fail to Help Our Prophet", is now available on the NEFA Foundation website. During his speech, Bin Laden once again condemned the publication of cartoons in Denmark deemed offensive to Islam, and the subsequent defense of their publication on free speech grounds. According to Bin Laden, "if there is no check on the freedom of your words, then let your hearts be open to the freedom of our actions... The answer is what you see, not what you hear."
Separately, NEFA has also released the fourteenth installment in its "Target: America" series, examining the planned 2004 attack on the Herald Square subway station in New York City. Working closely with an NYPD informant, whom they believed would provide explosives, conspirators Shahawar Matin Siraj and James Elshafay plotted to bomb what U.S. Attorney Roslynn R. Mauskopf labeled "one of the most active public transportation hubs in America."
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