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Monday, 11/01/2004 4:41:44 PM

Monday, November 01, 2004 4:41:44 PM

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Bin Laden vows war of 'attrition' against US until it's 'bankrupt': website
AFP: 11/1/2004
DUBAI (AFP) - Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has vowed to wage a war of "attrition" against the United States until it is "bankrupt," in a message to the American people posted on the website of Al-Jazeera TV.

The Qatar-based television posted what appeared to be the full text of a message, excerpts of which were aired three days ago, in which bin Laden threatened the United States with attacks similar to those of September 11, 2001.

"We became experts in gang warfare and in the war of attrition," says bin Laden in the new excerpts, published on the eve of the US presidential election.

"We fought the unjust superpower, waging (a war of) attrition, along with the (Afghan) mujahedeen, (against) Russia for 10 years until they became bankrupt and decided to withdraw in defeat," he says, referring to the fight against Soviet occupation forces in Afghanistan in the 1980s.

"We will press ahead with this policy of attrition (against) America until it is bankrupt, God willing. This is not difficult for God," bin Laden says.

In the parts of the video broadcast by Al-Jazeera Friday, bin Laden accused US President George W. Bush of negligence during the September 11 attacks, further inflaming the already intense final struggle for the White House between Bush and John Kerry.

Bin Laden told the American people that their security is not in the hands of either Bush or his Democrat challenger in Tuesday`s presidential vote but depends on US policy.

"The more serious thing for America is that the mujahedeen recently forced Bush to draw on an emergency fund to continue the combat in Afghanistan and in Iraq, which proves the success of the plan of attrition until bankruptcy," bin Laden says in the new excerpts of the message, which US intelligence agencies have deemed authentic.

He also boasts of the ease with which Al-Qaeda has been able to make the US administration jump.

"It was easy for us to provoke this administration and drag it" to places of Al-Qaeda`s choosing, he says.

"It only takes sending two mujahedeen to the far Mashreq (east) raising a piece of cloth bearing the name of Al-Qaeda for the (US) generals to scurry there, causing America human, material and political losses without any gain to speak of, except some benefits for their private companies," bin Laden adds.

The White House on Sunday labelled bin Laden`s surprise address to the American people as "threatening rhetoric," but said intelligence officials were still analyzing the tape for anything more menacing.


11/01/2004 - 19:43 GMT - AFP

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=32502

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