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Bin Laden denies terror attacks and
points finger at Jews
Osama bin Laden has allegedly denied any involvement in
the US terror attacks and pointed the finger at Jews.
His reasoning is that Florida's Jewish community has not
forgiven President Bush for his controversial state victory in
the US election, an Urdu language newspaper reports.
The interview with the accused terror mastermind appeared
in the Karachi daily Ummat, believed to have close
connections to Islamic groups in Afghanistan.
The newspaper says it submitted questions for bin Laden to
Taliban officials and received written replies.
The paper quoted bin Laden as saying: "Neither I nor my
organisation Al-Qaida is involved in the attacks and the US
has traced the attackers within America.
"The attackers could be anybody, people who are part of
the American system yet rebel against it, or some group
that wants to make this century a century of confrontation
between Islam and Christianity," he said.
Referring to evidence obtained by American intelligence,
bin laden said: "Ask this question to these intelligence
agencies that get billions of dollars every year."
Ummat quotes bin Laden as saying: "We are against the
American system but not the American people. Islam does
not allow killing of innocent people, men, women and
children even in the event of war."
He says international freezing of assets and accounts will
not affect the working of Al-Qaida "as we have alternate
arrangements".
According to the newspaper, bin Laden says Al-Qaida has
three alternate financial systems, which are being run
separately and independently by those "who love jihad," he
said.
Story filed: 16:42 Friday 28th September 2001