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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: calgal who wrote (15777)	5/20/2002 11:08:20 AM
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Bin Laden warns Israel's backers Threats were filmed two months ago, news agency claims National Post news services Reuters TV A gaunt Osama bin Laden extols the virtues of martyrdom in part of a new 40-minute video. LONDON - A British-based Islamic news agency released video footage of militant Osama bin Laden yesterday that it said was filmed just two months ago. The 100-second clip shows bin Laden seated outside a stone building in a camouflage jacket as he speaks to unseen supporters extolling the merits of martyrdom. In another segment, he warns any country siding with Israel is a target for Islamic terrorists. If the film is just two months old, it would be the first proof that bin Laden survived the U.S. onslaught on his al-Qaeda terrorist network and Afghanistan's former Taliban rulers after the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. Neither bin Laden's comments nor the setting of the film -- under a tree against a backdrop of hills -- shed light on when it was filmed. The Ansaar news agency said it obtained the video from a Pakistani intelligence officer four weeks ago. The officer told the agency it was filmed in March, "but we have no way of verifying that," said Imran Khan, an Ansaar journalist. "We know it is authentic film and we know it is bin Laden. He looks very gaunt and not as healthy as he did on previous films," Mr. Khan added. He said the footage was part of a 40-minute film brought to Britain on an encrypted CD-ROM that was decoded and transcribed last week. "Concerning the situation that we are in, we must praise Allah that he has allowed us to follow the path of [men who are among] the best of creation," bin Laden says. "We ask Allah for victory, and we ask Allah to grant us martyrdom." Another segment consists of an interview with bin Laden carried out by a reporter from the Qatari television station al-Jazeera. In it bin Laden warns that any country siding with Israel is a target. "The war is between us and the Jews," he says. "Any country that steps into the same trench as the Jews has only herself to blame." Mr. Khan said the interview was filmed in November but had not been broadcast by al-Jazeera. The first word from bin Laden after the Sept. 11 carnage came as the United States struck at his Afghan bases on Oct. 7. In a message taped before the strike but aired afterward on al-Jazeera, bin Laden reveled in the fear the attacks created. Wearing fatigues and clutching a Kalashnikov assault rifle, he swore the United States would not know security until its troops were out of Saudi Arabia. Since then, he has appeared on seven tapes released by al-Jazeera, CNN or the Pentagon. Other al-Qaeda tapes have surfaced carrying messages from bin Laden's deputies or images of al-Qaeda training exercises.