Bin Laden Blasts Peace

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Agencies
Publication Date: 
Mon, 2004-01-05 03:00

DUBAI, 5 January 2004 — An audiotape purported to be the voice of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden cautioned Muslims against Middle East peace efforts and urged them instead to continue fighting for their religion.

The speaker, in the tape broadcast by Arabic satellite channel Al-Jazeera, called on Muslims to fight against the US occupation in Iraq.

The speaker mentioned the capture of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein by US forces in December, indicating that the tape was made in the past three weeks.

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