The Hindu : 'Osama' slams initiative

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Friday, Mar 29, 2002

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'Osama' slams initiative

CAIRO MARCH. 28. A London-based Arabic newspaper said it had received an e-mail it believes to be from Osama bin Laden denouncing Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah's West Asia peace plan praising Palestinian suicide attacks.

``Prince Abdullah bin Abdel-Aziz's initiative, a Zionist- American (initiative) in Saudi government clothes, is merely a trick and a conspiracy,'' Osama, a Saudi-born dissident and America's most wanted man, said in the e-mail sent to Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper.

The style and the language of the statement, a copy of which was faxed yesterday to AP in Cairo, Egypt, closely resembled those used in previous statements by Osama. Osama also praised Palestinian suicide attacks on Israelis and urged Muslims to launch jihad, or holy struggle, against the Jewish state.

``Jews try in vain to flee, finding no refuge and becoming exposed to exploding bodies that make them taste death and chased by horror,'' said the e-mail. — AP

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