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BIN LADEN TV SUICIDE
Sons 'will shoot him to foil allies'
>From Jeremy Armstrong In Kabul
OSAMA bin Laden plans a TV suicide that will trigger attacks on landmarks
in London, Paris and the US. His estranged wife Sabiha said last night he
would order his elder sons to shoot him rather than be captured. Sabiha,
45, added: "That will be the signal for a new wave of terror. The targets
this time would be the Capitol building in Washington, Big Ben in London
and the Eiffel Tower in Paris." Her claims were broadcast on Russian
television as al-Qaeda boss bin Laden reportedly led 1,000 loyalists into
forests in Afghanistan after being flushed out of his Tora Bora caves.
New evidence has also emerged of his role in the September 11 atrocities
in America. In a 40-minute video tape obtained by the Pentagon, he
described the damage around the twin towers as "greater than expected"
and praised Allah for the success of the attacks. Bin Laden, 44, whose
Saudi family run a multi-billion dollar construction business, is said to
have 15 children by three or four wives. Estranged wife Sabiha, who
abandoned him after he took another wife aged 17, revealed the "suicide"
plan on Russian TV channel, TV6. Sabiha said he wanted his death and
ultimate martyrdom filmed by the al-Jazeera TV network, based in Gulf
state Qatar. It has broadcast several of bin Laden's rants against the
West since September 11. Yesterday bin Laden's mother Alia spoke for the
first time about him, saying she was not angry with him - just
disappointed by his ideas and actions. "Like all mothers, I am satisfied
and pleased with my son and pray to God to guide him and save him," she
told a Saudi newspaper. The family disowned him in 1994. The fresh tape
evidence of bin Laden's involvement in the twin towers horror is said to
have been found in a private home in Jalalabad. US Vice President Dick
Cheney said: "He does, in fact, display significant knowledge of what
happened and there's no doubt about his responsibility." On the tape, bin
Laden said he was at a dinner when he was told the first plane had
crashed into the Trade Center. He shared the information with other
guests and some expressed surprise. He told them to stick around and then
the second plane hit and they cheered. The tape also shows that bin Laden
was amused some of the hijackers were unaware it was a suicide mission. A
US official said: "He is amused by the fact that some of these people who
were martyred, they thought they were just taking part in a hijacking.''
A second, hour-long tape, obtained by the Mirror in Kabul, shows bin
Laden's hatred of America. It opens with newsreel footage of Bill Clinton
and George Bush on "Muslim soil". Jabbing his finger, bin Laden urges his
al-Qaeda fighters: "Our priority... is to rise up against America."
