by Dan Darling, of Regnum Crucis Osama bin Laden, or someone who sounds like him, has a new audio rant that was posted on several websites and forums sympathetic to al-Qaeda and its cause. In it, he references the fall of the Taliban, which would seem to make the earliest date possible for this speech to have been recorded as being late December 2001 or January 2002. My own analysis is that this rant was made at some point in early 2002 but was not distributed for reasons unknown. That the speaker is still calling for a massive Muslim uprising against their own governments is also indicative of the date in which it was recorded, as most statements from al-Qaeda's leadership after the summer of 2002 have mentioned Iraq. There is also evidently another bin Laden audiotape out, though this one was posted on different websites than the previous tape and demonstrates the enormous degree of radicalization that has occurred among Islamists since 9/11 - to the point where they are essentially ready to scrap the traditional foundations of Islam in order to further their agenda.