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To: Dealer who wrote (41255)	9/11/2001 5:57:55 PM
From: Nick	Respond to of 65232

Osama Bin Laden vowed just three weeks ago to unleash an unprecedented attack against the US. An Arab journalist with access to the terror chief said yesterday Bin Laden warned of a “very big one” being planned by Islamic fundamentalists he leads. Abdel-Bari Atwan says Bin Laden was almost certainly behind the devastation in New York and Washington. Atwan, editor of the London-based al-Quds al-Arabi news magazine, says he received information that “very, very big attacks against American interests” were being plotted. Bin Laden, the son of a Saudi oil baron, has a £3 million Sterling price on his head and is FBI’s most wanted man. His terrorist outfit was blamed for two bomb attacks on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania which killed 224 people and injured 4,000 in the August 1998, and 1993 bomb attack on the World Trade Centre. The group rejected suggestions that Bin Laden could be behind the attacks. The Taliban’s ambassador to neighbouring Pakistan, Abdul Salam Zaeef, said Bin Laden does not have facilities needed to carry out such well-orchestrated attacks. “It is premature to level allegation against a person who is not in a position to carry out such attacks,” he said. “It was a well-organised plan and Osama has no such facilities.” Bin Laden, a multi-millionaire Muslim militant blamed for some of the bloodiest attacks ever to hit the United States, sees them as part of a holy war that God will reward, adds Reuters. US authorities did not rush to accuse anyone of orchestrating the simultaneous attacks on commercial and military nerve centres. But few besides Bin Laden are perceived to have the cash or expertise to mount such attacks. Holed up in the mountains of Afghanistan, the tall, bearded 44-year-old militant leader commands Islamic fundamentalists willing to die attacking the US which they see as the ultimate enemy. He honed his guerrilla warfare skills in the 1980s, commanding Arab fighters funded by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) who fought alongside Afghan Muslim guerrillas against Soviet occupation forces in Afghanistan. His war with the US is believed to have begun after US forces deployed in Saudi Arabia during the 1990-91 Gulf crisis. He saw their presence as desecrating the land of Islam. He is also believed to blame the sufferings of the Palestinian people on the US’ support for Israel. Bin Laden is believed to live amid tight security near the Taliban’s spiritual capital in the southern Afghan town of Kandahar or the eastern town of Jalalabad. Taliban has rebuffed all attempts to deport him. Born in the Saudi capital Riyadh in 1957, Bin Laden was raised in a wealthy family that made its fortune from Saudi Arabia’s oil-fuelled construction boom. His own fortune is reckoned by US officials to be worth about US $300 million.