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# Osama bin Laden new tape an attempt to put al-Qaeda at heart of revolutions
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## Osama bin Laden's new tape in which he lavishes praise on the revolutions
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sweeping the Middle East appears to be an attempt to place al-Qaeda at the
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centre of the Arab Spring.
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[Link to this video][1]
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[![Rob Crilly][2]][3]
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By [Rob Crilly][4], Islamabad 12:21PM BST 19 May 2011
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[Follow Rob Crilly on Twitter][5]
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Islamists have played little role in the uprisings that began in Tunisia
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leading analysts to suggest that [**al-Qaeda**][6] had lost its relevance to
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angry Muslim youth even before bin Laden was shot dead by US special forces.
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"It seems a pretty transparent attempt to rewrite history and put al-Qaeda at
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the heart of the revolutions," said a security expert in Pakistan. "I think
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the young Arabs on barricades in Libya, Syria and Yemen will see through
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this."
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US Navy Seals killed bin Laden in a compound in Abbottabad, a garrison town
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near the Pakistani capital on May 2. The incident has deeply embarrassed the
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country's military and spy agencies and led to calls by members of the US
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Congress for a tougher approach toward the country.
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Bin Laden had not publicly reacted to the wave of demonstrations sweeping Arab
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countries before his death.
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However, in a statement, al-Qaeda said he had recorded a commentary only a
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week before he was killed.
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## Related Articles
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* [Bin Laden: message from beyond the grave][7]
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19 May 2011
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* [Bin Laden's biggest video moments][8]
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19 May 2011
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The Middle East's Islamists may come to rue the fall of the region's autocrats
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however.
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Once they were the main opposition to dictators from Tunisia to Syria.
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Banned and exiled they could position themselves as opponents of leaders
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propped up by Western paymasters, carrying the scars of imprisonment and
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torture like badges of honour.
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Now they find themselves overtaken by a new generation of tech-savvy, liberal
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leaders of largely secular uprisings.
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That is not to say they haven't benefited from the Arab Spring.
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In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood, which has long been barred from contesting
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elections, now has a gleaming new headquarters in an upmarket area of Cairo.
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In Tunisia, Islamist Ennahada politicians have returned from exile to become
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the best-organised and most widely known of the dozens of newly emerging
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parties.
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And in Syria, the Muslim Brotherhood claims to be trying to take a bigger role
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in organising the disparate opposition groups as protests wilt in the face of
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overwhelming force.
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But that is a long way from claims made by Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born
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al-Qaeda propagandist based in Yemen, that the uprisings will make room for
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Islamists to seize power.
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More likely they will have to convince a sceptical young audience of their
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merits at the ballot box.
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"The Islamists can try but now they will be out in the open and it will be
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easier to show why their arguments are all wrong," as one young rebel in
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Benghazi put it.
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## [Al-Qaeda][6]
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* ### [News »][14]
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* ### [World News »][15]
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* ### [Asia »][16]
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* ### [Pakistan »][17]
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* ### [Middle East »][18]
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In news
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[![Mullah Omar, head of the Taliban][19] ][20]
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[![The killing of Osama bin Laden could be used as legal justification for the
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death of Muammar Gaddafi, MPs have been told. ][23] ][24]
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### [Bin Laden's posthumous message][24]
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[![Osama bin Laden dead: Taliban suicide bombers kill 80 in Pakistan revenge
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attack][25] ][26]
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