Gerges: Bin Laden sounds more like Che Guevara
September 13, 2007 8:01 am Al-Qaeda (al-Qa`ida), Bin Laden StatementsBin Laden’s new image: younger, more Marxist | csmonitor.com, September 13, 2007
AFTER A THREE-YEAR absence, Osama bin Laden has resurfaced in another of his rousing videotapes, only this time with a new image and a new message. Projecting a younger look, Mr. bin Laden gives his most ideological address since the early 1990s with an assault on capitalism and liberal democracy loaded with Marxist and socialist terms. Indeed, this new bin Laden sounds more like Che Guevara, the Marxist revolutionary, than some of his rifle-toting Al Qaeda cohorts.