In extracts of a video broadcast on Wednesday, Osama bin Laden accused the west of "loathing Islam."
The following are extracts of bin Laden's own words, including earlier videos, since the September 11th attacks which the US accuses him of masterminding.
The latest video was broadcast on Al-Jazeera television on December 26th, and apparently recorded at an unknown location around December 7th. It arrived in a package posted in Pakistan. Bin Laden was quoted as saying:
"The latest events have proved important truths. It has become clear that the West in general and America in particular have an unspeakable hatred for Islam.
"Those who lived under continuous US raids for the past months are aware of it. How many villages have been destroyed and how many millions (of people) have been pushed out in the freezing cold?
"These men, women and children who have been damned and now live under tents in Pakistan, have committed no sin. They are innocent. But on a mere suspicion, the United States have launched this fierce campaign.
"We have witnessed the true crimes of those who call themselves humanists and claim to be defenders of freedom. Only seven grammes of explosives are needed to kill someone, but the United States have used bombs weighing seven million grammes (in their raids on Afghanistan) proving their hatred of the Taliban and Muslims.
"When the youths - may God receive them as martyrs - blew up (the US embassy) in Nairobi, less than two tonnes were used. The United States then said it was a terrorist act and a mass destruction weapon, while they unscrupulously used two seven-tonne bombs, of seven million grammes each.
"After they (the Americans) for no reason, bombed entire villages to scare the inhabitants . . . the (US)defence secretary said it was the United States' right to exterminate the peoples since they are Muslim and since they are not American. It is a blatant crime.
"It is the hatred of crusaders. Terrorism against America deserves to be praised because it was a response to injustice, aimed at forcing America to stop its support for Israel, which kills our people."
Extracts from a video broadcast on the Al-Jazeera television station on October 7th, the day the United States launched its war on Afghanistan:
"America has been hit by Allah at its most vulnerable point, destroying, thank God, its most prestigious buildings. America has been filled with fear from north to south and from east to west, thank God. Innocent children are being killed until this moment in Iraq and we hear no denunciation and we don't hear of any step (taken) by (Arab) rulers and sultans."
Extracts from a video statement broadcast on Al-Jazeera on November 3rd:
"Those who want to solve our problems at the United Nations are hypocrites who (try to) deceive God, his prophet and believers, because our suffering is caused by the UN."
Extracts from an amateur video released by the United States on December 13th which the Pentagon said was found in a house in Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan:
"We calculated in advance the number of casualties from the enemy who would be killed based on the position of the tower. I was the most optimistic of them all. Due to my experience in this field, I was thinking that the fire from the gas in the plane would melt the iron structure of the building and collapse the area where the plane hit and all the floors above it only. That is all that we had hoped for."