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In bin Laden's words
©Associated Press Bin Laden said he was speaking "three months after the blessed attack against the international infidels and its leaders, the United States, and two months after the beginning of the vicious aggression against Islam." "Several days ago, they (U.S. forces) bombed -- as they claimed -- positions of a Taliban base in Khost and sent a missile to a mosque and said it was a mistake. And after investigation it was clear that some religious scholars were praying." "Our terrorism is against America. Our terrorism is a blessed terrorism to prevent the unjust person from committing injustice and to stop American support for Israel, which kills our sons." "It is quite clear now that the West, generally speaking, and in particular America, has an indescribable hatred of Islam. The people who have lived the last months under the continual American airstrikes, they know that very well. Many villages were wiped out for no crime and many millions were displaced in this cold weather."
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