2007 Osama bin Laden video originally appeared in a banner ad on an Islamic militant website regularly used by al-Qaeda on September 6 , 2007 . The ad carried a picture of bin Laden and the logo of al-Qaeda 's media production company As-Sahab . An accompanying translated message read : " Soon , with the permission of God , a new visual tape , the Sheikh , the Lion , Osama bin Laden . May God protect him . " The timing of the video 's release coincided with the 6th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the United States . bin Laden 's previous appearance in a video was in 2004
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