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To: Laser who wrote (4)	8/23/1998 10:48:00 PM
From: jayhawk969	Respond to of 765

Laser, Two interesting articles from a Pakistan newspaper. This is twice that I have seen the Israelies mentioned twice as prime targets. jang-group.com #1 Bombing Suspects Confess to Links with Osama NAIROBI: Three suspects being held in Kenya in connection with the bombing of US embassy here have allegedly confessed to links with Saudi dissident Osama Bin Laden, a Kenyan daily reported on Saturday. The three were reportedly seen filming the US embassy building four days prior to the deadly explosion that killed 247 and left more than 5,000 wounded. The Daily Nation said that the three -- Mohammed Saddiq Howaida (Palestinian), Khalid Salim (Yemeni) and Abdallah Nacha (Lebanese) -- alleged that Bin Laden financed the twin bombings in Kenya and Dar es Salaam on August 7. The newspaper said they confessed to arriving in the country last year disguised as fish merchants and were attached to an Islamic non-governmental organisation based in Nairobi. Bin Laden used to send them money for their upkeep and to plot the bombings. "According to the suspects, the plan was to drive the pick-up that was carrying the bomb into the basement of the American embassy building," said a police source quoted by the newspaper. "And if they had managed to sneak into the basement, it would have brought down the targeted embassy building and all adjacent ones," the source added. The newspaper also published on its first page, a picture of one of the suspects, Khalid Salim, accused of hurling a grenade at security guards, moments before the bomb exploded. The report did not say how it obtained the photo or when it was taken. Witnesses had reported that FBI agents and Kenyan police raided a home in the nearby coast town of Malindi, conducting a three-hour search of a house in a slum district and detaining the homeowner, identified as Hassan Omar Hassan. Both US and Kenyan officials also declined to comment on that raid. On the political front, both the Kenyan and Tanzanian governments remained conspicuously silent about US cruise missile strikes on targets in Sudan and Afghanistan, which the Clinton administration said had Bin Laden links. Even before the US strikes, many Kenyans had expressed fears of their country becoming the venue for fresh attacks by those who carried out the embassy bombings. #2 Pakistan Knew Before Hand About US Attacks: Harkat leader ISLAMABAD: A Kashmiri militant group whose training camp was destroyed by US missile strikes in eastern Afghanistan, has threatened to retaliate. "The Americans and Jews should now prepare for their destruction," a military spokesman for Harkat-ul-Mujahideen said in a statement faxed to Reuters on Saturday. The statement said that nine of its members had been killed in the attacks on its training camp near Khost and 15 wounded. "The training camp was providing military training to Mujahideen fighting the Indian forces in occupied Kashmir," the statement said. The Harkat-ul-Mujahideen statement said: "America has challenged the honour of the entire Muslim world. The self-respecting Muslims of the world, particularly the Mujahideen of Islam, have announced that they will wage a holy war against America. And they will teach the Americans and their puppets, the Israeli Jews, a lesson they will remember forever." Meanwhile, Chairman of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen Fazal-ur-Rehman Khalil said on Saturday that about 50 people were killed and 60 injured in the US missile attacks on bases in Afghanistan. He said that the cruise missiles fired by US forces late on Thursday night hit three camps, which were damaged or destroyed. He said that some 50 people, including the group's members and others, were killed in the US raids. A camp belonging to Harkat-ul-Mujahideen was completely destroyed, the bearded leader, accompanied by armed guard carrying Kalashnikov assault rifles, told a news conference in Islamabad. "America is a terrorist state. It is occupying the holy places which must be liberated," he added. Khalili supported Saudi dissident Osama Bin Laden's mission to drive US forces from Muslim land in the Gulf and other Islamic states. Khalili condemned the US action, saying America had started the war. "We don't want confrontation with the US, but if they want war we cannot sit idle," he said. Khalili said that his group's camps in Afghanistan were engaged in 'welfare and educational' activities. "They were not engaged in any terrorist activity. The United States itself and its Central Intelligence Agency had set up training camps in Afghanistan during the 1979-89 anti-communist war against the former Red Army occupation of the Central Asian state," he added. In response to questions, Khalili said that he believed Pakistan knew before hand about the US attacks, adding that the United States had no moral or legal justification to use air space of other countries to launch its attacks. J.D.