APPEASEMENT

DUBAI (Reuters) - Arab television stations have aired a new audio tape purportedly from Osama bin Laden offering a truce with European states if they stop attacking Muslims, but not with the United States.

The voice on the tape, broadcast on Thursday by Dubai-based Al Arabiya channel and then by Qatar-based Al Jazeera station, said there would be no truce with the United States.

The taped message also vowed revenge on Israel for the death of a Hamas leader.

It was not immediately possible to verify the authenticity of the tape. (link)

Well, actually I have no idea what to make of this, it has yet to be verified and so on. Frankly, I don't know if we should be going from cue to cue in the war on terror based on these tapes, but the tape, if verified, is nevertheless interesting.

Now let us all lay our pre-existing positions on appeasement and the war on top of this tidbit, and have at it. Round one: FIGHT!

(actually, round one was Madrid)

UPDATE: Repudiations all around! Good.