WASHINGTON – In a tape released Sunday by al-Qaida's media wing, terrorist leader Osama bin Laden said President Barack Obama is "powerless" to stop the war in Afghanistan.

SITE Intelligence Group, a terrorist-monitoring firm that translated the address, said bin Laden, whose al-Qaida organization was behind the Sept. 11 attacks, blamed the war on the "pro-Israel lobby" and corporate interests.

IntelCenter, another company that monitors terrorist propaganda, said the 11-minute video shows a still picture of bin Laden while audio of the address plays.

Bin Laden's address to the American people comes two days after the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. He typically addresses the United States in a message around the Sept. 11 anniversary.

The purpose of his address Sunday, bin Laden said in the SITE translation, is "to remind you of the causes" of Sept. 11, chiefly "your support to your Israeli allies who occupy our land of Palestine."

Bin Laden argued against the claims that the war is necessary for U.S. security, saying current White House officials are merely following the strategy of former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney to "promote the previous policies of fear to market the interests of big companies."

When Obama became president and retained many of the Bush administration's military leaders, such as Defense Secretary Robert Gates, "reasonable people knew that Obama is a powerless man who will not be able to end the war as he promised," bin Laden said.

"If you end the war, so to it," bin Laden said. "But if it is otherwise, all we will do is continue the war of attrition against you on all possible axes."

oh great

Bin Laden is another conspiracy theorist

next he'll be making threads

what makes you think he is not (or at least not have someone making them)

what better way to spread hate and confusion

i would not be surprised to find he has a cave or two full of computers and people posting on various forum/chat oriented sites

it would be good for what the govt says he wants to do

so hey maybe it is really govt rooms and operators

but hey..............

if clinton would have taken him when he had the chance then things would have been diffrent

OF COURSE THEN THEY WOULD NEED ANOTHER TO BLAME

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Personally I think Bin ladin is dead and has been for a while. Those that want to keep him alive are just playing on the anxiety of the people here in America to keep that anxiety going, and to further divide america against itself. An excuse to further their own agenda and have it be legit, to them at least.

Why do we never see Bin Ladin talking live, we know what a massive ego the man has, yet we never see him speak live anymore.

Bin laden would say anything to make the news, truthfulness is not a concern of his.

I'm beginning to think Bin Laden is a fictional character made up by the CIA.

Not fiction, but definitely propped up by them.

Bin Laden is a Conspiracy Theorist? Where exactly has been the "change" in foriegn policy? Mr.Obama is even continuing the pathetic embargo on Cuba... for what?