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Publication: The Asian Age
Date: November 25, 2002
Osama bin Laden has asked America
to stop supporting India in Kashmir in a detailed new message reported
to he circulated among British Muslim terrorists.
"You attacked us in Somalia, you
supported the Russian atrocities against us in Chechnya, the Indian oppression
against us in Kashmir, and the Jewish aggression against us in Lebanon.
We advise you to stop supporting Israel, and to end your support of the
Indians in Kashmir, the Russians against the Chechens," the message says.
The full translated text of the
new message was published in the Observer here on Sunday.
The Al Qaeda leader has warned that
if America does not follow this advice, it should be prepared for a fight
with the "Islamic nation" as well as fresh attacks in New York and Washington.
"We advise you to pack your luggage
and get out of our lands. We desire for your goodness, guidance, and righteousness,
so do not force us to send back as cargo in coffins." The translated letter
was originally posted in Arabic on a Saudi Arabian website previously used
by the Al Qaeda to disseminate messages, the paper said. In the past fortnight,
British Islamists have translated the letter, said to be the most comprehensive
explanation of Bin Laden's ideology yet, and posted it on English-language
websites run from the UK. The letter was sent to hundreds of subscribers
to an email list run by Mohammed al-Massari, a UK-based Saudi Arabian dissident
whose Committee for the Defence of Legit mate Rights is opposed to the
Al-Saud regime, the report said.
Accusing America of being a hypocrite,
the letter says: "All manners, principles and values have two scales: one
for you and one for the others." "The freedom and democracy that you call
to is for yourselves and for the white race only; as for the rest of the
world, you impose upon them your monstrous) destructive policies and governments,
which you call the 'American friends.' Yet, you prevent them from establishing
democracies." The letter lists why the US is being targeted and what it
needs to do in order to prevent fresh attacks. It warns "If the Americans
refuse to listen to our advice and the goodness, guidance and righteousness
that we call them to, then be aware that you will lose this crusade Bush
began, just like the other previous crusades in which you were humiliated
by the hands of the mujabideen, fleeing to your home in great silence and
disgrace." The letter has been posted on a number of Islamist websites.
One carried bomb-making information. Another offered a link to a site with
information on chemical and biological weapons. Though there is no way
to confirm the authenticity of the letter beyond all doubt, senior Arab
journal ists in the West Asian media believe the letter is from Bin Laden.
