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Bin Laden Calls Anew for Attacks

From this article wriiten in 2001 - (China Daily online - see below ) -
some quotes by Osama bin Laden will be provided:

"It is important to concentrate on the destruction of the American economy'' so the United States will be too busy to bother with Islamic fighters, bin Laden said in the 33-minute video, aired on the Qatar-based television station Al-Jazeera.

The al-Qaida leader praised the perpetrators of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States and the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in eastern Africa. He said the attacks on Washington and the Pentagon were in response to "the continuing oppression inflicted on our children in Palestine, Iraq, Somalia and southern Sudan.''

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Bin Laden makes comments suggesting it was recorded in early or mid-December [2001]. He said he was speaking "three months after the blessed attack against the international infidels and their leaders, the United States, and two months after the beginning of the vicious aggression against Islam,'' apparent references to the Sept. 11 attacks and to the Oct. 7 start of US retaliatory bombing of Afghanistan.

"Our terrorism is against America. Our terrorism is a blessed terrorism to prevent the unjust person from committing injustice and to stop American support for Israel, which kills our sons,'' bin Laden said.

He said it was "inconceivable'' that his followers would "go after innocent civilians.''

Those who carried out the attacks on New York and Washington were "just 19 high school students - may God accept them as martyrs - who shook America, struck the American economy in the heart and hit the biggest military force at its heart with God's help,'' he said.

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In the tape, bin Laden said the US-led bombardment of Afghanistan shows that the West and the United States have an "indescribable hatred of Islam.''

"The people who have lived the last months under the continual American air strikes, they know that very well. Many villages were wiped out for no crime and many millions were displaced in this cold weather.''

He likened the bombing to terrorism.

"In Nairobi, when the boys - may God take them as martyrs - used a 2,000-kilo (4,400-pound) bomb, the US said this was terrorism, that this was a weapon of mass destruction. And now the US is using two bombs, each weighing 7,000 kilos (15,500 pounds). No one is questioning this.''

The United States has indicted bin Laden in the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

(China Daily December 28, 2001)

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