From: Barry Stoller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [L-I] Bin Laden 'evidence' remains secret AP; Reuters. 24 September 2001. Bin Laden Evidence Kept Classified; Mubarak Says Awaits U.S. Proof on Attack Blame. Combined reports. WASHINGTON and PARIS -- President Bush on Monday backed off the administration's pledge to quickly release evidence against Osama bin Laden. He said doing so could "make the war more difficult to win." Bush went out of his way to roll back reports that the White House was prepared to detail its case against bin Laden. Some world leaders have urged the administration to provide more information. "We will not make the war more difficult to win by publicly disclosing classified information," the president said. Secretary of State Colin Powell, standing at Bush's side, sent an entirely different signal a day earlier when he said the administration "in the near future" will be able to release "a document that will describe quite clearly the evidence." Advisers said Bush was irked by coverage of Powell's remarks. At the news conference, he pointedly asked his secretary of state to field questions about the policy on disclosing information. Powell said most of the case is classified, but suggested that some information might be "shared with the public" eventually. He sounded considerably less certain than he did on Sunday. Meanwhile, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Monday that he backed the United States in its "war on terrorism" but that Washington had yet to come up with proof of who was behind the deadly September 11 attacks. "We haven't got any proof," he told reporters after talks in Paris with French President Jacques Chirac, when asked whether Egypt would aid a military riposte by the United States. Mubarak, whose country is a key ally of Washington in the Middle East, has repeatedly urged the United States to come up with hard evidence linking Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden to the attacks. He also warned against drawing parallels between bin Laden and other traditional foes of Washington such as Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
