19 January 2006 Osama bin Laden tape

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On Thursday, 19 January 2006, an audio tape was released, presumably of Osama bin Laden, warning that al-Qaeda was planning more attacks against the United States.{{cite news|title=Bin Laden Warns of Attacks in U.S. but Offers Truce|newspaper=The New York Times|date=20 January 2006|id={{ProQuest|93132717}}}} The release of the tape came shortly after the United States' Central Intelligence Agency's Damadola airstrike in Pakistan, an attack that reportedly led to the deaths of Midhat Mursi, a veteran bomb and chemical expert and the head of an al-Qaeda training camp on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, Khalid Habib, the al-Qaeda operations chief for Pakistan and Afghanistan, Abdul Rehman al Magrabi, a senior al-Qaeda operations commander, and 15 other people.{{Citation needed|date=November 2023}} Civilians were among the others killed, according to the Pakistani provincial government.{{Citation needed|date=November 2023}}

On the tape (which may have been recorded a month earlier){{citation needed|date=September 2022}}, bin Laden boasted that "our situation is getting better, while your situation is getting worse." It also threatened future attacks on the United States, and simultaneously offered a "long truce", while not saying what the truce would involve. The White House immediately rejected the truce offer.{{cite web |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/19/international/middleeast/19cnd-tape.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all |title = Bin Laden Re-emerges, Warning U.S. While Offering 'Truce' |accessdate =19 January 2006 |author = Fattah, Hassan M. |date = 19 January 2006 |work=The New York Times }}