A terrorism monitoring group based out of the US has said a new audio track has surfaced online which allegedly contained the voice of Osama Bin Laden.
The tape, which runs for 11 minutes, was posted on a militant website this Friday and deals with the recent flooding in Pakistan, what can be done to prevent future disasters and how relief efforts can be helped.
The monitoring group, called SITE Intelligence Group says that the audio is played on the website with a picture of Osama Bin Laden superimposed over rotating images of aid distribution to Pakistani flood victims.
While there has been no independent verification as to the identity of the voice heard on the recording, the new tape is quite a turn around for the typical Bin Laden style; the last tape, which surfaced in March threatened that any American captured by Al Qaeda would be killed if the US went ahead and executed the alleged 9/11 mastermind Sheikh Mohammad.
In this latest recording, Bin Laden calls for a relief fund to be created which focuses on studying low-lying areas in Muslim countries which are prone to flooding, as well as greater investment in agriculture.
The new tone of the tape comes after over 1700 people died in the Pakistani floods and an unprecedented 15 million or more displaced as a result of the devastation.
The US has a $25 million bounty on Osama Bin Laden’s head, but the Al Qaeda leader remains at large, his whereabouts a mystery ever since the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan.
