AP ---> Osama bin Laden, publicly injecting himself into the campaign four days ahead of presidential elections, said in a videotape aired Friday that the United States can avoid another Sept. 11 attack if it stops threatening the security of Muslims.
He refrained from directly warning of new attacks although he said "there are still reasons to repeat what happened."
"We fought you because we are free ... and want to regain freedom for our nation. As you undermine our security we undermine yours," bin Laden said.
Before the tape was aired, the State Department urged the government of Qatar, which finances Al-Jazeera, not to broadcast it, a senior State Department official said.
Al-Jazeera broadcast about seven minutes of the tape.

WRH ---> If the new Osama tape is real, it only underscores that Bush has spent two hundred billion dollars and the lives of a thousand Americans without actually making the US any safer from Osama.

You and I are trapped behind Homeland Security, hassled at airports, spied upon, frisked, and confined to "Free speech zones", while this latest Osama, clearly rested and healthy, goes where he will, into TV studios, and is able to send taunting video tapes with impunity.

When the Osamas of the world are free while we who pay the bills are prisoners, this must be counted a complete failure by the administration which claims so many extraordinary powers under the banner of the "war on terror".