Bin Laden Praises Revolutions in Posthumous Message

Al-Qaeda seems to have taken a cue from Death Row Records in releasing its leading light's second-rate recorded material after his death.

In response to its leader's death, al-Qaeda has released an audio tape that Osama bin Laden recorded earlier this year. In the 12-minute posthumous recording, bin Laden heralds the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt as an opportunity for Muslims to cast off their secular governments and install Islamist leaders. Oddly, his praise of the revolutions sort of puts him onside with the West, although the two sought very different outcomes in Egypt and Tunisia (no mention is made in the recording of Libya or any of the other uprisings currently underway). If there are other tapes lying around waiting to be released, let us be the first ones to anoint bin Laden as the Tupac of Terrorism.