News agency receives purported bin Laden message
Suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden apparently sent a fax Monday expressing sorrow over the deaths of three people killed last week in anti-U.S. demonstrations in Karachi, Pakistan.
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"The news of the death of our brother Muslims in Karachi while expressing their opposition to the crusade of American forces and their allies on Muslim lands Pakistan and Afghanistan has reached us with great sorrow.
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"We hope that these brothers will be the first martyrs in the battle of Islam in this era against the new Jewish and Christian crusader campaign that is led by the Chief Crusader Bush under the banner of the cross.
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Couple of thoughts:
1) bin Laden is trying to get the Pakistanis to be one his side (or at least stir up revolt among the Muslims in Pakistan)
2) bin Laden definitely sees this as a religious war between Islam and Judeo-Christianity
