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# Osama bin Laden tape praises Arab Spring uprisings
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## Al-Qaeda has released an audio recording by Osama bin Laden in which he
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lavished praise on the revolutions sweeping the Middle East and called for
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more "tyrants" to be toppled.
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TelegraphPlayer-8522750
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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 8:21AM 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 had lost its relevance to angry
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Muslim youth even before bin Laden was shot dead by US special forces.
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But in a message apparently recorded a week before his death, bin Laden tried
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to wrest the initiative back from a new generation of leaders by hijacking
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their largely secular protest movements.
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"The sun of the revolution has risen from the Maghreb," he said during the
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12-minute recording posted on Islamist websites. "The light of the revolution
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came from Tunisia. It has given the nation tranquillity and made the faces of
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the people happy." Speaking from beyond the grave, he congratulated the
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leaders on their victories.
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And he offered advice to the revolutionaries, suggesting they set up
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"operations rooms" to foment unrest and councils to advise new governments as
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they take power.
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"I believe that the winds of change will envelope the entire Muslim world," he
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said. "There is a serious crossroads before you, and a great and rare historic
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opportunity to rise up with the Ummah (Muslim community) and to free
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yourselves from servitude to the desires of the rules, man-made law, and
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Western dominance."
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## Related Articles
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* [Bin Laden's biggest video moments][6]
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19 May 2011
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* [Islamists may come to rue Arab Spring][7]
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19 May 2011
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* [Obama to unveil economic plan for Arab world][8]
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19 May 2011
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* [US used new drones to track bin Laden][9]
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18 May 2011
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He added: "The youth must prepare what is necessary and must not make any
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decision without consulting those of experience and honesty who avoid half
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solutions."
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Analysts suggested it may be too little too late to reinvigorate his terror
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movement, which lost its charismatic leader and been relegated to the
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sidelines of Arab dissent.
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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." US Navy Seals killed bin Laden in a compound in Abbottabad, a garrison
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town near the Pakistani capital on May 2. The incident has deeply embarrassed
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the 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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American intelligence officials are now poring through a trove of data
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collected from the Abbottabad house for clues that will lead them to his
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accomplices.
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This week it emerged that al Qaeda had appointed Saif al-Adel, who was close
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to bin Laden during the 1980s, as temporary leader although Ayman al-Zawahiri,
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the deputy leader, remains favourite to take control eventually.
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## [Al-Qaeda][15]
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* ### [News »][16]
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* ### [World News »][17]
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* ### [Asia »][18]
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* ### [Pakistan »][19]
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* ### [Rob Crilly »][3]
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