World News 10-10-2001 Bin Laden Promises More Suicide Bombings who: Terrorist Osama bin Laden what: Threatens more suicide bombings against American interests around the world where: Afghanistan when: Yesterday snippet: "Osama bin Laden`s terrorist network last night threatened more suicide hijackings and other deadly attacks on American interests around the world," reports The Times. "In an unprecedented broadcast, a senior al-Qaeda figure said that thousands of young Muslims were ready to give their lives in the fight against the United States." Bin Laden`s spokesman Sulemain Abu Gheit appeared in a pre-recorded video aired on Arabic TV news channel Al-Jazeera, says Duncan Campbell in The Guardian. He said that the hijackers responsible for thousands of deaths in New York and Washington DC last month "did a good deed" and "called on Muslims across the world to wage holy war, suggesting that there were many places in the world where the US was vulnerable to new attacks." Furthermore, Taliban spokesman Abdul Hai Mutmaen has said that Bin Laden is now free to wage his jihad, reports the BBC. "He had previously been barred by the regime from using telephones, fax machines and the internet." Meanwhile, as the military strikes on targets in Afghanistan by Britain and America continued for a third night, The Times reports that Afghan airspace is now considered safe for reconnaissance aircraft to begin an intensive hunt for Osama bin Laden. Elsewhere, The Telegraph says that ground troops are expected to go into Afghanistan within days. The Pentagon says it has almost completed its first phase of attacks, with 85% of its targets destroyed. One that got away was Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, reports The Sun, whose home was destroyed by a Tomahawk missile 15 minutes after he escaped. [... more]

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