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To: robnhood who wrote (132117)	10/31/2001 11:53:10 AM
From: robnhood	Respond to of 436258

<<<-- DJ Saudi Official Blames Bin Laden For Afghan Casualties -- RIYADH (AP)--Osama bin Laden and the Taliban leadership are responsible for the civilian deaths caused by U.S.-led bombings in Afghanistan, the deputy foreign minister was quoted by the official Saudi Press Agency as saying Wednesday. In the first statement of its kind since strikes began Oct. 7 on Afghanistan in the U.S. battle against terrorism, Deputy Interior Minister Prince Ahmed bin Abdul Aziz said Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar and bin Laden "bear responsibility for those innocents who are under their protection." Ahmed, speaking in a Tuesday evening news conference, said it was unacceptable that "the Afghan people and Muslim interests should be victimized for the sake of individuals," the news agency said. He reiterated official Saudi concern that civilians are being killed in the four-week-old U.S.-led attacks on bases of bin Laden's al-Qaida network and his Taliban protectors. He also appeared to offer some justification for the U.S. attacks by saying that "the current situation of Osama bin Laden and his group and what they have shown of their positions has made them culpable to a large extent, approaching 100%, and prompted the United States to take these measures to fight terrorism." Saudi Arabia has been a reluctant partner in the U.S.-organized anti-terror coalition, refusing to allow its bases as staging grounds for the attacks, sparked by Taliban's refusal to hand over bin Laden, the prime suspect in the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington. >>>