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India-Pakistan
Binny puts it in a letter...
2002-10-09
A letter said to have been written by Islamic militant Osama bin Laden called on Wednesday for the overthrow of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, a key U.S. ally in the Afghan military campaign.
Uh huh. Lemme see, here... I have a letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt around here, someplace, too...
The letter, distributed in some Afghan refugee camps in the northwestern city of Peshawar, close to the Afghan border, also appealed to Pakistan's Islamic clerics to lead their people into "jihad (holy struggle) against crusaders and their allies."
That's what they've been trying to do. You don't suppose they're not getting enough fanaticism worked up, and needed a letter from Binny to help?
"My Pakistani Muslim brothers...get rid of the shameful Musharraf and my call is especially to the Pakistani clerics," said the letter, addressed to the Pakistani nation and quoting heavily from the Koran.
They're the ones who dote on his every word, aren't they? If he's still alive, twenty bucks says he's staying in some cleric's guest house...
The purported call from the Islamic fugitive came a day before Pakistan holds a parliamentary election designed to return the country to civilian rule.
No, no... Even a Pak holy man wouldn't be cynical enough to forge a letter from Binny telling people to vote for the fundo ticket, would he?... Well, yeah. I guess he would...
The unsigned, printed, one-page letter was written in Arabic with a translation also distributed in Urdu. The Urdu version says at the end "please photo-copy and distribute this message." The phrase did not appear in the Arabic version. It carries the name "Osama bin Mohammad bin Laden." In it, the Saudi-born dissident slammed Musharraf for his crackdown on members of his al Qaeda network and the decision to hand some key members over to the United States.
"Yeah. Shoulda just given them free rein to take over the country. We'd all be better off if they had, except for the people they'd have executed or mutilated by now..."
Pakistani officials have caught hundreds of al Qaeda militants including bin Laden's key aide Abu Zubaydah and a key suspect behind the September 11 attacks, Ramzi Bin al-Shibh. Both men have been handed over to the United States. Pakistani police, assisted by U.S. FBI agents, on Tuesday raided an Afghan refugee camp near Peshawar in search of suspected al Qaeda members and their Taliban allies, but despite two arrests they did not find the men they were looking for.
Mahmoud the Weasel might know...
The letter said that Pakistan was created to be the "fort of Islam" but "regrettably this... has turned into an American base... from where it has been shedding the blood of Muslims and destroying their towns and cities."
If you live in the "fort of Islam" that means you don't have to abide by any rules of civilized behavior...
There have been numerous messages and letters attributed to the world's most wanted man, who many analysts believe is dead. The last time there was concrete evidence he was alive was in early December 2001, U.S. officials have said.
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#2  "The unsigned, printed, one-page letter...." Sounds like Vince Foster's suicide note. Get a random Capitol policeman! He can verify it!
Posted by: Bob Hawkins   2002-10-10 13:06:44  

#1  "Unsigned and printed"?!! If he is alive, he should've been able to sign it or at least leave a thumbprint.On the other foot, if Binny is alive and the letter is a fake, he'd soon be sending a correction...
Posted by: El Id   2002-10-09 14:03:40  

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