The Washington Post, April 17th, 2004
PARADOXICALLY, Osama bin Laden -- if it really was Osama bin Laden -- may have done this country a favor by offering a "truce" with Europe on an audiotape played on Arab television networks this week. The voice on the tape, which the CIA said may belong to the al Qaeda leader, offered not to attack "any country which does not carry out an onslaught against Muslims or interfere in their affairs." In effect, Osama bin Laden was putting into words a tactic that al Qaeda and its affiliates have practiced but never articulated: the use of both rhetoric and violence in an attempt to separate America...
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