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To: Narotham Reddy who wrote (4902)	10/14/2001 11:52:40 AM
From: HG	Respond to of 281500

Al Qaeda asks US, allies to stop supporting India on Kashmir H S Rao (PTI) (London, October 14) For the first time, Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda terrorist network has brought Kashmir into its current conflict with the US and its allies by demanding that they should stop supporting India on the issue. In a videotaped statement telecast last night by Qatar's Al-Jazeera television channel, Al Qaeda spokesman Sulaiman Abu Ghaith threatened the US and Britain with more suicide attacks and cautioned Muslims against travelling by air and staying in high-rise buildings. "These storms (of planes) will not calm until you retreat in defeat in Afghanistan, stop your assistance to the Jews in Palestine...Leave the Arabian Peninsula and stop your support for the Hindus against the Muslims in Kashmir," he said. While the reference to Kashmir by Al Qaeda in itself is a new development in the current drive against terrorism, it does not surprise Indian security and intelligence agencies who have for long known about the involvement of bin Laden's mercenaries in Jammu and Kashmir. Home Minister L K Advani said in Agra on Saturday that bin Laden and his outfit were closely associated with terrorist groups in Jammu and Kashmir as was evident from the recovery of bin Laden's photographs from apprehended and slain terrorists. Britain and the US termed the latest Al Qaeda statement as just more propoganda. hindustantimes.com