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Bin Laden To Address Muslims In Televised Broadcast
Jun 22, 2002 From Katty Kay and Roland Watson in Washington
Source: The Sunday Times
Osama bin Laden will soon make a televised address to the Muslim world, a prominent Arabic language website has reported, reinforcing American intelligence information that he is still alive.
US intelligence believes that he is surrounded by al-Qaeda's high command either in Afghanistan or just over the border in Pakistan.
Washington has been braced for a new bin Laden video.
One official told The Times:
"We expected them to take six months to reorganise.
They have taken nine.
But we're sure he's still there."
It would not surprise some in Washington if the video were broadcast on or just before America's Fourth of July, as a symbolic attempt to overshadow America's Independence Day celebrations.
The announcement, which was attributed to Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, bin Laden's spokesman, appeared on Wednesday on a website that issues daily updates on the war in Afghanistan.
"America should get ready and fasten its safety belt," Abu Ghaith was quoted as saying on the site.
"We will come to them from where they don't expect.
Yes, we will wage attacks, but at the right time, at the place we want and in the way we please."
Although US eavesdroppers have picked up an increase in "chatter" from electronic surveillance of suspected al-Qaeda sympathisers, little or nothing has suggested bin Laden's whereabouts.
One key indicator was the movement of two of the five people arrested last month in Morocco.
The pair were wives of two of the three Saudi nationals who are suspected of plotting attacks on Nato ships in the Strait of Gibraltar, and had made recent trips to Afghanistan.
Intelligence officials assume they were al-Qaeda messengers.
US intelligence officials were scanning the web yesterday for the possible reappearance of "alneda.com", an Arabic internet site described as the "mouthpiece for al-Qaeda in exile".
Alneda.com popped up in Texas and Malaysia earlier this month before being taken off the web at the request of US intelligence.
The site, which contained audio and video clips of bin Laden, photographs of al-Qaeda suspects in detention in Pakistan and what appeared to be coded messages for followers, was used to transmit instructions for attacks and plans for regrouping.
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