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Publication: The Indian Express
Date: September 13, 2002
Radical British Muslims passionately
defended the September 11 attackers on Thursday and told the world to expect
more strikes like last year's devastating airline attacks in New York and
Washington.
"The United States has to suffer
more so it can learn obedience," leading London-based Saudi dissident Dr
Muhammad Al-Masari told a news conference after a controversial meeting
at a mosque in the city.
The meeting was called to discuss
the "positive outcomes" of last year's attacks in the United States, in
which more than 3,000 people died. Provocatively entitled "A Towering Day
in History", it drew hardline Muslims from across the world.
Syrian-born cleric Sheikh Omar Bakri
Muhammad told reporters Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network, widely blamed
for the attacks, was still intact and was "a powerful organisation".
He predicted revenge if the United
States attacked Iraq, which has become the new focus in US President George
W Bush's self-declared "war on terror".
