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>>>McConnell also said he worried that Osama bin Laden’s recent video and audio releases may be a signal to terrorist cells to carry out operations, he told the Senate Judiciary Committee. “That’s unusual. He had been absent from airwaves over the last year. Our concern is that’s a signal,” McConnell said. “It just causes us to be concerned and vigilant.”<<<

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/books/review/06filkins.html?pagewanted=print

. . . Wright takes the title of his book from the fourth sura of the Koran, which bin Laden repeated three times in a speech videotaped just as the hijackers were preparing to fly. The video was found later, on a computer in Hamburg. “Wherever you are, death will find you, Even in the looming tower.”

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Pakistan Derides Threat From Bin Laden
By STEPHEN GRAHAM –

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. . .But a Pakistani intelligence official said authorities had to take the statement seriously — a similar message from al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri preceded twin attempts on Musharraf’s life in December 2003. The official, who is not authorized to speak to the media, wouldn’t discuss whether the security ring around Musharraf would be tightened.

Bin Laden’s message was his third this month after a long quiet and came in a flurry of al-Qaida propaganda marking the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. . .

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/hourlyupdate/202820.php

Iran’s president at Columbia University - a transcript
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 09.24.2007

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MR. COATSWORTH: Which was posed by President Bollinger earlier and comes from a number of other students. Why is your government providing aid to terrorists? Will you stop doing so and permit international monitoring to certify that you have stopped?

PRESIDENT AHMADINEJAD: Well, I want to pose a question here to you.

If someone comes and explodes bombs around you, threatens your president, members of the administration, kills the members of the Senate or Congress, how would you treat them?

Would you award them or would you name them a terrorist group?

Well, it’s clear. You would call them a terrorist.

My dear friends, the Iranian nation is a victim of terrorism. For — 26 years ago, where I work, close to where I work, in a terrorist operation, the elected president of the Iranian nation and the elected prime minister of Iran lost their lives in a bomb explosion. They turned into ashes.

A month later, in another terrorist operation, 72 members of our parliament and highest ranking officials, including four ministers and eight deputy ministers, bodies were shattered into pieces as a result of terrorist attacks. Within six months, over 4,000 Iranians lost their lives, assassinated by terrorist groups, all this carried out by the hand of one single terrorist group.

Regretfully that same terrorist group, now, today, in your country, is being — operating under the support of the U.S. administration, working freely, distributing declarations freely.

And their camps in Iraq are supported by the U.S. government.

They’re secured by the U.S. government. . .

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