The Unreported Story

By now, those of you with at least a minimum of contact with the outside world have heard that Osama bin Laden has released another audio tape, this one promising furhter attacks on US soil.
If you are really lucky, your news source has even reported that "Sammy" bin Laden has offered a truce (but no terms were set forth).
Unfortunately, that's where the story stops for most.

Doesn't it seem odd to you that if the terrorists are winning the war, as our beloved media tries to portray, that they are beginning to float "truce" trial baloons?
What gives?

Robert Spencer, over at JihadWatch.org gives us some insight:

In Islamic theology traditionally the forces of jihad ask for a truce when they are weak and need to gather strength. Hmmmm.

ADDENDUM: I have been asked to provide details of the truce in Islamic law. Here is a passage from Umdat al-Salik (Reliance of the Traveller), a Shafi'i Sharia manual endorsed by Al-Azhar University in Cairo as conforming to the "practice and faith of the orthodox Sunni community":

Truces are permissible, not obligatory....Interests that justify making a truce are such things as Muslim weakness because of lack of numbers or materiel, or the hope of an enemy becoming Muslim...If the Muslims are weak, a truce made be made for ten years if necessary, for the Prophet (may Allah bless him and give him peace) made a truce with the Quraysh for that long, as is related by Abu Dawud....The rulings of such a truce are inferable from those of the non-Muslim poll tax; namely, that when a valid truce has been effected, no harm may be done to non-Muslims until it expires. -- Umdat al-Salik, o9.16

Maybe, just maybe, something positive will come out of this mess.