An audiotape message attributed to top terror mastermind Osama bin Laden laid the blame for the deadly unrest in Saudi Arabia on the kingdom's regime, in a broadcast on an Islamist website Thursday.
"The responsibility for the current situation in Saudi Arabia rests with the regime," said the voice on the tape broadcast on one of the main Islamist Internet sites.
The authenticity of the tape could not be immediately verified but the voice sounded like that of bin Laden.
"In Saudi Arabia, it is the king and not Allah who commands sovereignty and complete obedience," the voice said. "I advised the government two decades ago to remedy the situation ... but it has not changed at all."
Saudi Arabia has been battling Islamist militants with suspected links to bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network to put down a wave of deadly attacks which began in May 2003 in the ultra-conservative kingdom.
"The responsibility for the current situation in Saudi Arabia rests with the regime," said the voice on the tape broadcast on one of the main Islamist Internet sites.
The authenticity of the tape could not be immediately verified but the voice sounded like that of bin Laden.
"In Saudi Arabia, it is the king and not Allah who commands sovereignty and complete obedience," the voice said. "I advised the government two decades ago to remedy the situation ... but it has not changed at all."
Saudi Arabia has been battling Islamist militants with suspected links to bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network to put down a wave of deadly attacks which began in May 2003 in the ultra-conservative kingdom.
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