Bin Laden audio tape released
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Cairo - A man identified as Osama bin Laden delivered a message about the conflict between the rulers and the people of Saudi Arabia in an audiotape posted on an Islamic website on Thursday.

The voice sounded like the al-Qaeda terror chief's, and the tape was posted on a site known as a clearinghouse for militant Islamic comment.

The speaker said that while Saudi leaders blame "holy warriors" for trouble in the kingdom, "the truth is that the whole responsibility falls on the shoulders of the regime" .

The speaker, in calm and even tones, accused Saudi rulers of "violating God's rules," a common theme of statements from bin Laden, who accuses Saudi rulers of being insufficiently Islamic and too close to the "infidel" United States.

The main statement was preceded by Quranic verses, a rhetorical device typical of bin Laden.
 

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