DOHA, November 12 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Osama Bin Laden hailed in an audio recording broadcast by Al-Jazeera TV channel late Tuesday, November 12, the hostage-taking operation in Moscow and the Bali blasts in Indonesia, and warned U.S. allies.

"As you assassinate, so will you be (assassinated), and as you bomb so will you likewise be," he said in the broadcast, in reference to the United States and its allies.

In the audiotape addressed to "the peoples of countries allied to the United States," Bin Laden warned them against the "alliance between their governments and the United States."

"Do not your governments know that the White House gang is the most vicious butcher of the age?" Bin Laden wondered.

"Is not what (U.S. President George) Bush, the Pharaoh of our age, is doing in Iraq and Israel is Palestine of killing and shelling enough," he asked.

He cited by name "Britain, France, Italy, Canada, Germany and Australia."

Lauding the attacks "on Germans in Tunis, on the French in Karachi, on Australians and Britons in Bali, on the French tanker in Yemen and U.S. Marines in Failaka (Kuwait), as well as the recent hostage-taking in Moscow," Bin Laden said they were "the response of Muslims eager to defend their religion."

The Qatar-based satellite channel did provide any details on how it obtained the tape.

Commenting on the new tape, Hany el-Sebaei, a London-based Islamic scholar, described the tape as the strongest evidence that Bin Laden is still alive.

Bin Laden wanted to encourage Arabs and Muslims, especially Iraqis to resist and defy American arrogance.

Bin Laden is sending a message to the Arab and Islamic nation, that if the United States had failed to arrest him, then the nation can stand in the face of mighty America, according to el-Sebaei.

Meanwhile, the White House said Tuesday it had seen reports of a purported new audiotape by Bin Laden but was "not making any judgments" about its authenticity, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).

"We've seen the reports, we're looking into it, but at this point we're not making any judgments as to whose voice is on the tape," said White House national security spokesman Sean McCormack.

On October 6, Al-Jazeera broadcast what it said was a recording of the Al-Qaeda leader in which he issued a new threat to strike U.S. economic interests until it renounced its "injustice and hostility" toward Arabs and Muslims.

Last month, Bin Laden praised in a similar tape heroic and jihad operations targeting the French oil supertanker off Yemeni coast as well as attacks on U.S. forces in Kuwait.

In a statement signed by his name, of which Al-Jazeera obtained a copy, Bin Laden exhorted the Islamic nation to close ranks and overcome differences.

In his statement, Bin Laden stressed that priority must be given to fighting Americans and Jews.

He underlined that the American troops in Afghanistan failed to accomplish their mission, that is to arrest Taliban and Al-Qaeda, realize security and stability in Afghanistan or unify the country under a central government.

Ever since the U.S.-led attack on Afghanistan late last year, there has been debate on whether Bin Laden was still alive.