Bin Laden tape is real, French say

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: CNN

Paris, France (CNN) -- A tape of a man claiming to be Osama Bin Laden threatening France appears to be authentic, the French Foreign Ministry said Thursday.

Bin Laden warned France to get its troops out of Afghanistan and not to oppress Muslims at home in a tape broadcast by the Al-Jazeera network Wednesday.

"If you want to tyrannize and think that it is your right to ban the free women from wearing the burqa, isn't it our right to expel your occupying forces, your men from our lands by striking them by the neck?" the speaker demands, in reference to recently passed French legislation barring women from covering their faces in public.

"This message only confirms the reality of the terrorist threat against which the French authorities have taken and continue to take appropriate measures," the ministry said in a statement Thursday.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/10/28/france.bin.laden/index.html

[marmar]

1. Looks like Sarkozy has discovered Cheney's OBL videotape vault.

nt

[JuniperLea]

2. Why is it a wealthy man like Bin Laden...

Is still resorting to technology from the last century?

[JustAnotherGen]

3. What part of

Sarkozy is a really cocky s.o.b. and that's just going to make him angrier than he already is does this 'Bin Laden' not get? I know the Spirit of the French. I've been around them and grew up with my Great Grandfather who was a French Army Officer during World War I. He was defiant. And so are most of the French people I know living there today. None of those still living today agree with the Afghanistan war - but they are just so doggone defiant. :rofl: They don't like being told or dictated to by their own President - what makes Bin Laden think they are going to listen to him? :rofl:

ETA - Sending text to my friend Mona who was born and raised in Paris and who thinks Sarkozy is a racist. Standby for the head explosion.

[JDPriestly]

5. Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite

Not just a slogan to the French.

Bin Laden may have met his match.

[DCKit]

4. I wonder which Bin Laden - young, old, fat, sick, zombie....

Pity there's no video.

[stray cat]

6. So now the French are part of the conspiracy?

:sarcasm: