“Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.”
[Fareed, Zakaria, http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12553209/, Osama Needs More Mud Huts, Newsweek, May 8, 2006, 2006-09-11]
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