Osama bin Laden has issued a second tape, lauding his own honesty, 24 hours after admitting to a slip of the tongue in an earlier tape he made.“I did not mean to suggest that Pope Benedict XVI drew the cartoons of oranges, blackboards and abstract geometrical patterns with which the crusader artists have so cruelly teased our faith,” the 71 year-old father of a hundred said, following a whispered conversation with terror deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri. “That was just a slip of the tongue.”
But terror critics have pointed to a series of occasions over the past eight years on which the isolated sheikh asserted that Pope Benedict XVI drew all 13 cartoons himself using a set of papal nibs.
On a C60 audio cassette placed behind a loose brick last January, Bin Laden stated, “It’s common knowledge, and has been reported in the media, that the pope made those insult-drawings and did the inking on them. That’s well known.”
Prompted by questions in the terror community over his remarks, the Afghan war veteran insisted that there was “compelling proof that the pope has attended night-classes in zionist drawing at a prominent Danish academy.”
It was only when the caliph’s second-in-command whispered something in his ear on yesterday’s video, that Bin Laden corrected himself.
“I’m sorry. Crusader draughtsmen did sketch the oranges and blackboards with the intention of heaping abuse on our sacred prophet,” he said, “although not the pope, not the pope. I’m sorry.”
“Gawd help us all,” said disgruntled martyr Atif as-Salami, “if this man is the prince of global jihad.”
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