Posted on 06/22/2002 8:41:02 AM PDT by It'salmosttolate
Osama bin Laden to address Muslims soon: Spokesman
AP
Cairo, June 21
Statements on a website attributed to Al-Qaeda's spokesman claim that Osama bin Laden will soon make a televised addressed to the Muslim world.
The remarks, purportedly made by Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, appeared on an Arabic-language website that issues daily updates on the war in Afghanistan.
"We assure Muslims that Sheik Osama bin Laden is in good health, and all that has been reported about his sickness or his being injured in Tora Bora is completely false. The sheik will address the (Muslim) community soon in a televised interview," Abu Ghaith was quoted as saying.
There was no way to independently confirm the authenticity of the remarks.
A three-part series signed by Abu Ghaith and entitled "Why we fight America," appeared last month on an Islamic militant website which has been up and down for months.
The latest comments were posted on Wednesday, according to the site, and include a photo of bin Laden kneeling between Abu Ghaith and Ayman Al-Zawahri, bin Laden's Egyptian lieutenant. The picture was taken from a video on Oct 7, the same day the United States launched its military campaign against Afghanistan's former ruling Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
"America should get ready and fasten its safety belt," Abu Ghaith was quoted as saying. "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."
Abu Ghaith, a former teacher and mosque preacher who was stripped of his Kuwaiti citizenship after the Sept. 11 attacks, allegedly said "98 per cent of Al-Qaeda's leadership is safe ... The battle will intensify soon, God willing, inside and outside Afghanistan."
A "live" interview would be great. We might actually be able to see the jaw fall off. Of course, then the transmission would be subject to "technical diffulties" while the Western World falls on the floor laughing...
Apparently yes. If you go to Google and then click on "Advanced Search," you'll find a number of options. One of them lets you limit your search to web pages in a language that you specify, and Arabic is one of the choices. I don't know Arabic, and I don't know what would be involved in typing Arabic script or in getting it to appear correctly. (I would think you'd need something like an Arabic language kit with Unicode support, but I'm just guessing.)
Really? Revealed by whom? Revealed to whom?
He is the author of 'Seeds of Fire,' which lays the blame for 911 on China. Do you really think that Washington would inform America that UBL had escaped to China back in December?
From his web site:
GORDON THOMAS is the author of fifty-three books. Total sales exceed 45 million copies. Several were Main Selections for Book of the Month Club, the Literary Guild Book and the Readers Digest Book Club. He has received two Mark Twain Society Awards for Reporting Excellence. Seven of his books are major motion pictures including five times Academy Award nominated Voyage of the Damned; Enola Gay, which won the Emmy Awards Foreign Critics Prize. Experiences won the Juries and Critics prize at the Monte Carlo Film Festival. He holds an Edgar Alan Poe Award for Shipwreck.
His books of best-selling David Morton novels are being filmed by IAC International as a 22-hour television series to be screened worldwide in 2003. His Gideon’s Spies: Mossad’s Secret Warriors became a major documentary for Channel Four which he wrote and narrated. It followed three years of research during which he was given unprecedented access to Mossad’s key personnel. The book has so far been published in 16 languages.
Gordon Thomas lives in Ireland, with his wife, an interior designer. His four children work in various sections of the entertainment industry.
People who wold grind their fellow countrymen into mush with tanks are capable of anything.
hindustantimes.com | Jun 21 2002 | AP
Cairo, June 21
Statements on a website attributed to Al-Qaeda's spokesman claim that Osama bin Laden will soon make a televised addressed to the Muslim world.
The remarks, have now been released by Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, and are unusually short for the illusive, but verbose bin Laden. The complete text of the remarks follows:
"By the grace of Allah most high and merciful ...
China hiding him is a very good theory I posted months ago.
The only argument is how much money China lost at the WTC.Small price to pay for slick war.
Now we know why your an ex-texan!
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