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| Afghanistan |
| Binny promises more suicide attacks |
| 2001-10-10 |
OSAMA BIN LADENâS terrorist network last night threatened more suicide hijackings and other deadly attacks on American interests around the world. In an unprecedented broadcast, a senior al-Qaeda figure said that thousands of young Muslims were ready to give their lives in the fight against the United States. Sheiman Abou-Gheith, an al-Qaeda spokesman, said that the men who had âdestroyed America with their aeroplanesâ had carried out a âgood deedâ and warned of further attacks using hijacked aircraft. The impassioned five-minute diatribe was broadcast last night on the Qatar-based al-Jazeera television network and coincided with a call to British Muslims to assassinate Tony Blair and his Cabinet to avenge the bombing of Afghanistan. Abdul Rehman Saleem, a spokesman for the fundamentalist group al-Muhajiroun, said: âBecause the allies, the British and the Americans, have started bombing the Muslims of Afghanistan, for those people over there, the government buildings here, the military installations, including 10 Downing Street, become legitimate targets. âThat includes the Cabinet and it includes the Prime Minister as well. âWhat it means is that if any Muslim wants to assassinate him, wants to get rid of him, I am not going to shed any tears for him and from the Islamic point of view this person is not going to be chastised, this person is not going to be punished for that act, this person will be praised.â |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |