[Telegraph-UK] Alex Spillius - Osama bin Laden has urged Americans to convert to Islam in the first video message from the al-Qaeda leader for three years. The 30-minute recording contains several references to recent political events, and is the clearest indication yet that bin Laden is still alive, despite being hunted by the U.S. military for nearly six years with a $25 million bounty on his head. The tape has a more philosophical approach than previous missives and contains no specific threat of terrorism in the West, though it does promise unremitting conflict in Iraq.
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