New Bin Laden Tape Surfaces

From a report in The Austalian:

An audio recording purportedly by Osama bin Laden, in which he mentions a December 6 attack in Saudi Arabia, was posted on the Internet today.

The recording, in which bin Laden blesses a group of Saudi militants who stormed the US consulate in Jeddah, suggests the al-Qaeda leader is alive.

The voice and the style of the speaker was similar to bin Laden but the authenticity of the tape could not be verified.

One has to wonder why an audio tape as opposed to video. He's proven not to be camera shy.

Nonetheless, the speaker on the tape accuses the Saudi royal family of being insufficiently Islamic and too close to the infidels. In fact, besides a hallelujah to the terrorists who stormed the U.S. Consulate in Jiddah, criticism of the Saudi rulers appears to be the essential gist of the message.