Bin Laden decries Middle East talks
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From Times Wire Reports
Osama bin Laden lashed out at Palestinian peace negotiations with Israel and called for a holy war to liberate the Palestinian lands.
A day after a militant website played an audiotape in which Bin Laden threatened Europeans, TV channel Al Jazeera carried audio excerpts attributed to the Al Qaeda leader urging Palestinians to ignore political parties “mired in trickery of the blasphemous democracy” and to rely on armed might. “Palestine cannot be retaken by negotiations and dialogue, but with fire and iron,” he said.
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