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Arabic newspaper says it received e-mail from Bin Laden
REUTERS [ THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2002 3:28:27 AM ]
LONDON: An Arabic newspaper said on Wednesday it had received an e-mail claiming credibly to be from Osama bin Laden, attacking a Saudi peace plan for the Middle East and urging the region's Muslims to revolt against their leaders.
Abdel-Bari Atwan, editor of the London-based al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper, who met bin Laden in 1996, told Reuters that he thought the e-mail was "most likely" genuine.
Atwan said it conformed to the style and language of other statements his newspaper had received in the past from bin Laden and his al-Qaeda group.
The e-mail gave no clue to the whereabouts of bin Laden, blamed for the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington and hunted for months by US forces in his former Afghan cave bases.
Entitled "Statement from Sheikh Osama bin Laden on the initiative of Prince Abdullah", it slammed the peace initiative presented by Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah on Wednesday to an Arab summit in Beirut.
The initiative offers Arab normalisation of ties with Israel in exchange for full Israeli withdrawal from Arab land occupied in 1967.
The alleged bin Laden statement said the Saudi plan was "a Zionist-American one in Saudi clothes".
"The initiative of Prince Abdullah...is a conspiracy and another display of repeated betrayals," it added.
It paid tribute to Palestinian suicide attacks against Israel as well as the September 11 attacks on the United States.
It said Israeli people had no escape in the face of "bodies that blow up making them taste death and confronting them with terror".
"Then the battle of New York came... proclaiming the beginning of the end, God willing" for what the statement called the "god of pagans" -- an apparent reference to the United States.
"In light of the bloody events that our nation is going through, everybody is required (to take up) Jihad... and grassroots leaderships have to move to end this roaring bloodshed and to expose the treacheries," it said.
It said people who were oppressed by their regimes and could not take up jihad "have to open the way to other daring people who are able to bring about change".
The Saudi-born bin Laden has repeatedly attacked the leadership of Saudi Arabia, especially for allowing US troops to be based on the territory of the oil-rich kingdom, home to Islam's holiest sites.
The US military campaign in Afghanistan has ousted from power bin Laden's Taliban hosts and led to the detention of hundreds of alleged al Qaeda members but no credible recent sighting of bin Laden has been reported.
Bin Laden issued a series of videotapes to the media last year, but none has been produced in 2002.
A half-brother told an Arabic newspaper last week that bin Laden was alive and had contacted his mother about four weeks ago.
US officials say they have found new Web sites and Internet communications that appear to be part of an effort to reconstitute al-Qaeda.
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