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To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (6181)	10/19/2001 3:27:23 AM
From: HG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I doubt Pakistan will agree to be left out of the party even though the world has pleadged them 85 million already in debt relief. With Kashmir issue unresolved and the terrorists vamoosed, they have to be thrown a bone to chew on, they've been good doggies after all <g>..... Although everyone in the region in happy with Northern Alliance, except the Afghans themselves, but of course Afghan's don't count <g>, I guess Pakistan will have their say too.... Although, a moderate Taliban is an oxymoron ! Should be interesting. Meanwhile...ugh... ‘Kill, fight ... destroy Americans’ Philip Willan/Nick Hopkins (Guardian News Service) (Rome/London, October 18) hindustantimes.com Letters allegedly written by Osama bin Laden to his supporters in London called on members of Al-Qaeda to acquire weapons of mass destruction and urged them to "kill, fight, create traps and destroy" Americans. In the correspondence, Bin Laden refers to the US sanctions on Iraq as the "worst international terrorism" and said it was the "sacred duty of Muslims" to drive out American forces from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf. If the letters, published yesterday by the Italian newspaper La Republica, are genuine, they give an insight into the way Osama incites his followers, and underline that his fundamental objective is to purge western powers from the oil rich resources of his Saudi homeland. The letters were supposedly seized by Scotland Yard during an investigation to find Bin Laden followers in Britain who may have had knowledge of, or involvement in, the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. The inquiry led to the arrest in September 1998 of three men - Khalid al-Fawwaz, Adel Abdul Bary and Ibrahim Hussein Eidarous - who are currently appealing against extradition to the US where they would face charges relating to the attacks. Their case will be heard in the House of Lords on Monday. Last night, Akhtar Raja, a lawyer acting for Fawwaz, said he was "very, very sceptical" about the authenticity of the letters, saying that they were inconsistent with other documents known to have come from Bin Laden. The letters were published yesterday following the start of a court hearing in Turin which involves a suspected Bin Laden terrorist, Ibrahim Mahmdouh Ellaban. He was arrested as a result of the Scotland Yard investigation Operation Challenge. During the inquiry, detectives found references to Ellaban in an address book owned by a suspected terrorist in London. Scotland Yard also recovered about 1,350 documents, including the four letters, from offices in northwest London that were used by Fawwaz, Abdul Bary and Eidarous, La Repubblica said. The newspaper said the three men were involved in an organisation called the Association for the Defence of the Egyptian People and stated that the documents - some of which were on floppy disks - were handed to the Italian police by Scotland Yard. The letters and other papers were presented as evidence during an appeal case for Ellaban, who was arrested two years ago for possession of weapons, including an Uzi machine gun with a silencer, and was subsequently sentenced to five years' imprisonment. In the earliest letter, dated August 23 1996, Bin Laden describes how he has evaded international authorities by fleeing to mountains in Afghanistan. "They have hunted me in Sudan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, but thanks to Allah a secure base has been founded on the peaks of the Hindu Kush." He says the "greatest disaster that the Muslims have suffered since the death of the Prophet is the occupation of the land of the two sacred mosques... by the Christian armies of the Americans and their allies". In another letter, dated April 16 1998, Bin Laden says: "America carries out the worst international terrorism. Is it not terrible terrorism that America is carrying out in Iraq on children, women and the old, having condemned them to hunger?" The call to his followers to acquire weapons of mass destruction is justified in a letter dated May 1998. "Without these arms, Muslims would be without protection in the face of the 200 nuclear warheads of Israel and the arms amassed in the Christian countries commanded by America and Great Britain." ******************************************************** ‘We’ll drag US troops through streets’ The military chief of Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network said Afghans would drag slain U.S. troops through the streets, rekindling memories of Washington's doomed 1993 involvement in Somalia, a report said on Thursday. "America will only be certain about its mistaken calculations after its soldiers are dragged," the report by the London-based Islamic Observation Centre quoted Abu Hafs al-Masri as saying.