http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...030213/ap_on_re_eu/bin_laden_tape_2&printer=1 LONDON - A British-based Islamic news agency said Thursday it has a new audio recording of Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) in which he predicts he will die as "a martyr" this year in an attack against his enemies. The Al-Ansaar news agency said that the 53-minute tape was allegedly recorded this month and acquired from a seller who advertised over the Internet. Imran Khan, who runs Birmingham-based agency Al-Ansaar, told The Associated Press that he translated the tape, describing it as poetic with several verses from the Quran. "In this final year I hurl myself and my steed with my soul at the enemy. Indeed on my demise I will become a martyr," the al-Qaida leader purportedly says. "I pray my demise isn't on a coffin bearing green mantles. I wish my demise to be in the eagle's belly," he continues. Khan said experts contacted by Al-Ansaar believed the "eagle" referred to the United States and the quote revealed bin Laden's wish to end his life in a final act of terrorism.
You're in a room full of everyone remotely connected to this story. Who do you kick the ************ out of first? The nominees: 1. The news agency. Assuming they DIDN'T make this up - and let's face it, they did - what kind of bad citizenship does it take to get a tape of Osama bin Laden and think, "Well, the authorities can read about it in tomorrow's edition"? Do they really think Osama wouldn't attack Great Britain because their little printing press is on some corner near the Bull Ring? If NBC tried a similar stunt, I'd be driving over to Burbank to let them know how I felt. 2. The dumbass who ADVERTISED it on the INTERNET? Gee, that had no chance of earning the advertiser a nice long stay at the Hotel Guantanamo. 3. Whoever the ************ is suppose to be monitoring the net for stuff like this. Why ISN'T that asshat bunking with John Walker Lindh right now? 4. Whoever wrote that script. I could eat Alpha-Bits and ************ a better speech - stop me if I've told you that one.