UK Observer: Bin Laden urges terror blitz

[huckleberry]

There's a lot more information in this article than I've seen in the American press. Is it because of the Saudi connections?

Jason Burke, chief reporter
Sunday October 19, 2003
The Observer

The world's most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden, has mounted an unparalleled propaganda offensive calling for renewed attacks on the West and on American and British troops in Iraq.
The Saudi-born leader of al-Qaeda has simultaneously released two audio tapes, a series of videotaped threats and several filmed statements by his group's suicide bombers who died in an attack on Riyadh in May.

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The videos, posted on a website regularly used by al-Qaeda, include undated footage of the leader in which he looks healthy and at ease. They also feature, for the first time, a statement in English, read by a suicide bomber who died in Saudi Arabia, threatening terror against the West.

The new material is a serious blow to security agencies hunting him. They fear that the tapes, which include an audio recording of the al-Qaeda strike in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, last May, may presage new attacks.

In a development that is likely to embarrass the Saudi regime, a suicide bomber, calling himself Fazl bin Mohammed al-Kashmiri, claims he is the son of a retired senior officer in the Saudi intelligence service.

much more at
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1066430,00.html

[Old and In the Way]

1. You mean the source of 9/11 terror resides in Saudi Arabia?

Why didn't anyone tell Dick and Dimson?

Geesh, and we just vacated the bases in Saudi Arabia, too.....