It appears that Osama bin Laden has released his first video since 2004.

ABC News has portions from a transcript of the tape here.

Update: MSNBC has a full transcript of the tape. (pdf file)

Update II: I just read the transcript, and it sounds like bin Laden's target audience might consist of the kind of folks who agree with the radical rantings one might hear from a leftist college professor.

For example, bin Laden talks about colonial imperialism and hews to anti-corporate populist rhetoric throughout the speech; he also disparages neoconservatives "like Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Richard Pearle." (Of course the fact that Rumsfeld and Cheney were never Democrats, and therefore not neoconservatives, is a perfect unintended parody of this kind of rhetoric.)

The transcript also includes favorable references to Noam Chomsky, a favorite of radical leftists and utopian pacifists.

In reading the transcript, we see how bin Laden reverses some of the chronology of the Vietnam War, enabling him to shoulder Rumsfeld with much of the responsibility for that war.

President Kennedy, we learn from Osama, tried to reverse the evil Rumsfeld and his cronies' war in Vietnam, ultimately paying with his life -- an assassination where "corporations were the primary beneficiary of his killing."

We also get a few odd references to global warming -- in an apparent attempt to link the issue to more anti-corporate populist rhetoric.

At one point bin Laden apparently tries to appeal to the trials and tribulations of Middle America, moving partially to the middle from the Left, saying:

... the reeling of many of you under the burden of interest-related debts, insane taxes and real estate mortgages; global warming and its woes; and the abject poverty and hunger in Africa: all of this is but one side of the grim face of this global system."

It's all fairly humorous and reminiscent of many university speakers I've heard before.