A German government spokesman said Wednesday that a new audio tape presumably of Osama bin Laden’s voice did not point to close links between the al Qaeda network and Iraq. “From what is known so far, we don’t think we can conclude that there is evidence of an axis or close link between the regime in Baghdad and al Qaeda,” the spokesman told a news conference. Earlier, German security sources said they believed the voice on an audio tape broadcast by a Qatar television channel which exhorted Muslims to fight the “allies of the devil” was Osama bin Laden. Full Story