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Bin Laden has said he was resigned to the fact the Americans would get
him
sooner or later. He has reportedly asked his lieutenants to kill him
before
he can be captured.
Subject:
[beritamalaysia] Mullah Omar, Osama going separate ways;
Al-Qaeda will strike again - Islamist cybernauts
Date:
Sun, 02 Dec 2001 00:22:28 +0800
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Mullah Omar, bin Laden going separate ways
Peter Mackler
Last modified: Saturday December 1, 6:38 pm
6:32pm, Sat: ISLAMABAD (AFP) - They were comrades in arms, enigmatic
figures
who incarnated the threat of global terrorism. But with the world now
closing in, Osama bin Laden and Mullah Mohammad Omar appear to be going
their own ways.
Nobody can say for certain where the two men are hiding as they try to
elude
pursuing US-led forces. But the suspected terrorist mastermind and his
Taliban protector clearly have different fugitive styles.
Omar, the reclusive supreme leader of the Islamic militia, claims to be
standing firm in their southern spiritual stronghold of Kandahar,
rallying
his scattered troops and vowing a fight to the death.
Bin Laden has kept a low profile, making public remarks only twice since
the
Sept 11 attacks on the United States, once in a tape distributed for
broadcast and once in an interview with a Pakistani journalist.
A one-time honored "guest" and major financial backer of the Taliban,
the
Saudi millionaire turned militant appears to be on his own as he flees
US
wrath for the carnage wrought in New York and Washington.
After a series of confusing statements, the Taliban now say with some
consistency that they have no idea where bin Laden is. Moreover, they
say he
has dropped out of contact.
"There is no relation now. There is no communication," Omar's spokesman
Syed
Tayyab Agha told foreign journalists at a press conference 10 days ago
in
the Afghan border town of Spin Boldak.
The diverging paths of the two men have not been lost on the Americans
who
see the disintegration of the Taliban regime as key to pinning down bin
Laden and his al-Qaeda network.
'Dead-ender'
US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld yesterday called Omar a
"dead-ender"
who "is determined to try to re-energize Taliban, to get the Taliban
fighters to consolidate somewhere and to kill people."
He said the austere Sunni cleric and his fundamentalist troops were
trying
to either hang on to Kandahar or, if they can't do that, to "get in the
mountains and wait their time and come back."
Bin Laden, on the other hand, "is in a secure location somewhere
attempting
to deal with his network in whatever way he does," Rumsfeld said. "Bin
Laden
clearly has a different interest," he said. "He uses Afghanistan as a
lily
pad, a place to be, a place to go out and kill other people around the
world, to manage his al-Qaeda network."
US officials believe the 44-year-old bin Laden may be hiding out either
in
the mountains around Kandahar or in a elaborate complex of caves in
eastern
Afghanistan near the city of Jalalabad.
If the two men now find themselves uncomfortably in the cross-hairs of
the
powerful US military, they got there by very different routes.
Bin Laden is the scion of a wealthy Saudi construction magnate who died
in a
helicopter crash and left him US$80 million when he was 11. Omar, said
to be
in his late 30s, was brought up in religious schools.
They fought alongside one another in the jihad, or holy war, launched
against the Soviets who occupied Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989.
When bin Laden was stripped of his Saudi citizenship for his criticism
of
the royal family and the Americans, he came to Afghanistan and
reportedly
contributed arms, cash and men to the Taliban.
He turned up in Kandahar in 1997 and cemented his friendship with Omar,
whose refusal to give him up to the Americans sparked the massive US-led
military offensive that toppled his regime.
The Saudi militant, who walks with a cane, and the one-eyed Omar are
said to
be extremely close. Bin Laden says he has a "spiritual relationship"
with
the Taliban chief but denies he is married to one of Omar's daughters.
While the US-led offensive has split the fortunes of the two men, they
are
both speaking of a common destiny in the martyr's death that might await
them both.
Omar has called on all his troops to fight to the last. He is also more
prone these days to pepper his pronouncements with bin Laden-like
warnings
of a "big" plan for "the destruction of America."
Bin Laden has said he was resigned to the fact the Americans would get
him
sooner or later. He has reportedly asked his lieutenants to kill him
before
he can be captured.
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http://www.malaysiakini.com/Foreign/2001/12/2001120105.php3
Al-Qaeda will strike again, say Islamist cybernauts
Habib Trabelsi
Last modified: Saturday December 1, 6:30 pm
6:22pm, Sat: DUBAI, (AFP) - Partisans of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda
network
are preparing terror attacks in the United States, Saudi Arabia and
Pakistan, if Islamist cybernauts are to be believed.
These cyber-Islamists, who are making their views known on a dozen
websites
visited by AFP, say they are in contact with the Taliban and bin Laden's
followers holding out in Kandahar, the last major bastion of
Afghanistan's
former ruling militia.
They say they are managing to reach their fellow Islamists through the
Internet and by satellite phone. Militants in areas bordering Pakistan
can
also be reached by mobile phone.
Those claims fly in the face of the assertion by US Deputy Defense
Secretary
Paul Wolfowitz, in a Nov 28 interview with the French newspaper Le
Monde,
that the US-led strikes have "destroyed al-Qaeda's means of
communication
with the outside world."
The cyber-Islamists also claim that bin Laden's eventual demise would
not
spell the end of his al-Qaeda network.
"The bulk of bin Laden's followers are outside Afghanistan, notably in
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries," according to
statements
posted on the 'al-Saha al-Arabiya' (Arab Arena) website , which say
"major
operations" will be carried out in these countries.
The Taliban's and al-Qaeda's military capabilities remain largely
intact,
they say.
And the Taliban's withdrawal from major Afghan cities was "a well
thought-out move aimed at avoiding US bombing as well as any
responsibility
for the massacre of civilians."
Thanks to the pullout, the Taliban also did not have to cater for the
civilian population and provoked the United States into deploying ground
troops, they noted.
US marines have completed their deployment to a desert airstrip south of
Kandahar where more than 1,000 troops have set up a forward operating
base
to put pressure on choke points on the roads leading out of Kandahar,
according to Pentagon officials.
'Upcoming strikes'
A website called 'Ana Muslim' (I am Muslim) warns of "upcoming strikes
that
will throw the enemy off balance and change the course of events."
"The commander of the faithful (Taliban supreme leader) Mullah Mohammad
Omar
assures all fighters that victory is near. Muhajedin leaders predict
surprises in the coming days," declares 'Harb' (War), a website
dedicated to
"the new crusade".
"The war has only started. The Afghan Muslim people appeal to all
Muslims to
pray for their brethren," it adds.
'Harb' has since Oct 16 been posting detailed accounts of the "crusade
against Islam" in Afghanistan, which has "claimed hundreds of American
lives."
The latest, dated Nov 27, refutes "US allegations" that US forces are in
control of the airport at Kandahar, Mullah Omar's stronghold.
"The airport and the entire province of Kandahar remain under the
control of
the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan," it states.
"The crusaders have unleashed their bombers against the city of Kandahar
and
its suburbs, killing some 1,500 civilians in five days," says the same
website, urging Muslims "not to believe the lies of the world media."
The 'al-Qalaa' (the fortress) website slams Western media for
"distorting
facts."
In an apparent bid to avoid such "distortions," another Islamist website
posts news in English and French as well as Arabic.
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