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I can hide anywhere, even in J&K: Osama
Terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden has said he has no difficulty in finding a safer place outside Afghanistan as he has hideouts everywhere, from Indonesia to Algeria, Chechnya to Kashmir and Bosnia to Sudan.
Terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden has said he has no difficulty in finding a safer place outside Afghanistan as he has hideouts everywhere, from Indonesia to Algeria, Chechnya to Kashmir and Bosnia to Sudan.
In an interview to Pakistan’s Urdu weekly Takbeer, Bin Laden said there was no problem in finding hideouts from where he can carry out his “mission”.
“I am not afraid of death because I have to kiss martyrdom one day and I pray to God to ordain martyrdom,” Bin Laden, prime suspect in last month’s terror strikes in the US, was quoted as saying.
The weekly has not specified from where and when it obtained the interview.
Stating that he considered Pakistan a sacred land and abode of pure people, Bin Laden said these people (Pakistanis) would protect him without caring for their lives.
“Pakistan is a great hope for the Muslims of the entire world... Pakistanis are ready to fight against the enemies of Islam shoulder to shoulder with Taliban.” He said had there been such “valiant Muslims in two other Muslim states”, there would have been no dominance of the West over the world.
Denying involvement of any of his compatriots in the suicide attacks in the US, Bin Laden said Islam prohibits killing of innocent people.
He alleged that the attacks may be the handiwork of Israel, Russia, India or Serbia.
He said freezing of assets of his network Al-Qaeda would make no difference because the organisation has more than three such alternative financial systems which are independent.
He said the main task of Al-Qaeda is to “awaken” Muslims so that they could wage jehad against “infidels”.
“We are not against any Muslim country rather we are against those Muslim rulers who are out to make the countrymen slaves of infidels.”
Alleging that Americans are slaves of these Jews, Bin Laden said: “They are bound to follow those policies that Jews are making for them.”
Stating that Al-Qaeda wants to rid Americans of Jewish influence, he said his organisation does not want to punish innocent Americans “rather it wants to punish Israelis which should serve as an eye-opener to them for generations to come”.
Bureau Report
“I am not afraid of death because I have to kiss martyrdom one day and I pray to God to ordain martyrdom,” Bin Laden, prime suspect in last month’s terror strikes in the US, was quoted as saying.
The weekly has not specified from where and when it obtained the interview.
Stating that he considered Pakistan a sacred land and abode of pure people, Bin Laden said these people (Pakistanis) would protect him without caring for their lives.
“Pakistan is a great hope for the Muslims of the entire world... Pakistanis are ready to fight against the enemies of Islam shoulder to shoulder with Taliban.” He said had there been such “valiant Muslims in two other Muslim states”, there would have been no dominance of the West over the world.
Denying involvement of any of his compatriots in the suicide attacks in the US, Bin Laden said Islam prohibits killing of innocent people.
He alleged that the attacks may be the handiwork of Israel, Russia, India or Serbia.
He said freezing of assets of his network Al-Qaeda would make no difference because the organisation has more than three such alternative financial systems which are independent.
He said the main task of Al-Qaeda is to “awaken” Muslims so that they could wage jehad against “infidels”.
“We are not against any Muslim country rather we are against those Muslim rulers who are out to make the countrymen slaves of infidels.”
Alleging that Americans are slaves of these Jews, Bin Laden said: “They are bound to follow those policies that Jews are making for them.”
Stating that Al-Qaeda wants to rid Americans of Jewish influence, he said his organisation does not want to punish innocent Americans “rather it wants to punish Israelis which should serve as an eye-opener to them for generations to come”.
Bureau Report