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To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (204263)	11/13/2002 12:07:10 AM
From: Israel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

scarry stuff... Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. government officials say an audiotape of Osama bin Laden praising recent acts of terrorism is authentic, evidence the leader of al-Qaeda survived the U.S. aerial bombardment of Afghanistan. Preliminary indications are that the voice on the tape is bin Laden's, a senior U.S. government official said requesting anonymity. The speaker on the tape, broadcast by the Qatar-based al- Jazeera television network, praised the terrorist incidents last month in Moscow and the Indonesian island of Bali and threatened to retaliate in the event the U.S. attacks Iraq, Cable News Network said. The whereabouts of bin Laden are unknown since his al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan were destroyed in the war on terrorism begun after the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Dale Watson, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's executive assistant director for counterterrorism, said in July he thought bin Laden was dead, though he said he had ``no evidence to support that.'' The speaker in the audiotape referred to U.S. President George W. Bush as ``the pharaoh of the century,'' CNN said. Attacks in Moscow, Bali, Kuwait and Yemen were in retaliation for Bush's actions ``killing our children in Iraq,'' the speaker said. The U.K., France, Italy, Canada, Germany and Australia were criticized for ``allying themselves with America in attacking us in Afghanistan,'' CNN cited the speaker as saying. Bali Bombing Al-Qaeda said last week it carried out the Oct. 12 attack on a nightclub in Bali that killed at least 190 people, CNN reported citing a statement on the group's Web site. Most of the people killed in the incident were tourists, many of them from Australia. The al-Jazeera broadcast said Australia was warned against participating in Afghanistan. ``They ignored our warning and they woke up to the sound of explosions in Bali,'' CNN cited the speaker as saying. Al-Qaeda has regrouped, is receiving funds and is ``fit and well and poised to strike at its leisure,'' the United Nations said in a report in August.