CENTCOM is reporting that one of the jihadi websites is claiming that they're going to be releasing a new video showing Osama. I can't wait to hear what they've cooked up. Andrew at the Counterterrorism Blog can't remember whether CENTCOM has ever issued a release such as this before. This might be the first time, as I can't either.
Allahpundit is somewhat dubious at the possibility that Osama will appear. He thinks it is more likely that it will be a video from Number 2 - Zawahiri.
The fact is that al Qaeda is taking a pasting in Iraq and getting it from every corner. Sunnis, Shiites, Iraqi forces, US forces. He's got to do something to reverse the trend, and making an appeal to the jihadis is about all Osama can offer these days.
The Islamists were booted from Somalia, despite his calls for jihad there. Ethiopia had delivered quite the beating to jihadi forces there, despite Osama's calls for the jihad to spread to the Horn of Africa. The Islamic Courts are engaging in an insurgency, but they're the ones on the run. The same goes for al Qaeda and Taliban along the Afghan-Pakistani border, despite the safe haven afforded by some elements inside Pakistan.
Others blogging: Jammie Wearing Fool, LGF, Michelle Malkin, and The Jawa Report.
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