Dubai: Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden issued an apparently new audio tape on an Islamist website on Monday, warning the American people over their government's close ties to Israel.
The message, entitled A statement to the American people, was approximately 10 minutes long and appeared on a website often used by supporters of al-Qaeda.
The message "explains the cause of al-Qaeda's attacks in New York and Washington" and puts the blame on pro-Israel lobby and not Islamic militants for pushing on with the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Earlier this month, the same website had announced that it would soon carry a "present" to Muslims from Osama on the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan.
Osama is currently thought to be hiding in the mountainous terrain along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
The message comes a few days after the anniversary of the September 11 attacks in US carried out by-al Qaeda operatives in 2001 in which nearly 3,000 people died.
In his last previous known message in June, Osama bin Laden had said that US President Barack Obama had planted the seeds of "revenge and hatred" towards the United States in the Muslim world.
Those remarks were issued just before a major speech by President Obama who said he sought a "new beginning" between the United States and the Muslim community.
The authenticity of the audio recording could not be independently verified.
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