Are you ready to join Osama Bin Laden and his band of world-wide terrorists? If death, destruction and mayhem aren't enough to convince you to reject Western style democracy and become a part of the global jihad, then Osama's got another enticement: No taxes. That's right, Osama promises that under Islamic rule, you'd be free of the Tax Man forever.

"There are no taxes in Islam," he says in the much anticipated new tape, "only a limited Zakaat (alms) totaling 2.5 percent."

Hey, with promises like that, he's all set to run for the U.S. presidency.

This is just one strange (or perhaps not so strange) interlude in the Osama transcript (now available here). More to follow....