Posted on 10/18/2003 12:10 PM EDT by Brian S
Bin Laden Tells U.S. to Quit Iraq-Jazeera TV Sat October 18, 2003 11:50 AM ET
DUBAI (Reuters) - Arabic satellite television Al Jazeera said on Saturday al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had sent an audio message advising the United States to quit Iraq.
The television has yet to broadcast the audio tape but made a text of it available to the media.
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Other attackers strike U.S. truck near Fallujah, witnesses say
Iraqis from the restive town of Fallujah celebrate as a U.S. Army ammunition truck blazes. Witnesses said the vehicle had been hit with a rocket-propelled grenade in an ambush.
FALLUJAH, Iraq, Oct. 19 Two U.S. soldiers were killed and one was wounded in an ambush north of Baghdad, the military reported Sunday, and insurgents attacked a convoy in this turbulent city west of the capital, setting off huge explosions in several vehicles.
YOUNG IRAQIS here cheered and danced with each explosion and motorists sounded their horns in an apparent celebration of the attack.
In a third incident, three apparent Iraqi attackers were also reported killed.
There were no reports of casualties in the Sunday morning attack against what appeared to be a U.S. ammunition truck here in Fallujah, 35 miles west of Baghdad in the Sunni Triangle.
Dozens of Iraqi youths cheered and danced in celebration as contents of the flaming vehicles continued to explode. Witnesses said U.S. troops came under subsequent attack with rocket-propelled grenades as they tried to approach the truck and withdrew.
U.S. troops and Iraqi police kept journalists away from the scene, but from a distance it appeared that three American vehicles, including at least one truck and one Humvee, were ablaze.
There were conflicting reports whether the attack in the eastern end of the city was triggered by a roadside bomb or by rocket-propelled grenades.
Saturdays deaths came barely a day after four American soldiers were killed in a roadside explosion in Baghdad and a clash with Shiite Muslim gunmen in the southern shrine city of Karbala, on the deadliest day for the occupation force in a month.
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"A 40-year-old mother of seven children from Nablus was one of three Palestinians arrested by soldiers and Shin Bet agents on Monday for attempting a suicide bombing in Rosh Ha'ayin, security sources said Tuesday."
"Islamic radicals held training camps for potential recruits across France through 2002, Le Parisien newspaper reported Wednesday, adding that French investigators believe they have successfully dismantled the network running the camps."
Before the 1970s, she explained, "Muslim immigrants who came to the United States would build a store-front mosque somewhere. Then, since the 1970s, the Saudis have been approaching these mosques and telling them it wasn't proper for the glory of Islam to build such small mosques."
For many Muslims, it seemed the Saudis were offering a free mosque. However, Barsky believes for each mosque they invested in, the Saudis sent along their own imam (teacher-cleric).
"These [immigrants] were not interested in this [Wahhabi] ideology, and suddenly they have a Saudi imam coming in and telling them they're not praying properly and not practicing Shari'a [Islamic law] properly." This Saudi strategy was being carried out "all over the world, from America to Bangladesh," with the Saudis investing $70-80 billion in the endeavor over three decades.