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Date Posted: 13:17:03 12/03/01 Mon
Bin Laden hits out at UN 'infidels'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1636000/1636257.stm
Saudi-born militant Osama Bin Laden has condemned the United Nations as a "tool" for crimes against Muslims, in a new recorded video address.
Parts of the statement were broadcast by the Qatar-based satellite television channel al-Jazeera on Saturday. It was not clear when or where it was recorded.
Bin Laden, chief suspect in the 11 September attacks on the US, denounced as "infidels" Arab leaders who co-operated with the United Nations.
"Those who today are referring our tragedies to the United Nations and want to resolve them there are hypocrites, who try to deceive God and His prophet and the believers. Have our tragedies not resulted from the United Nations?"
He said the United Nations had given Arab land "to the Jews" in 1947.
"Those who claim to be leaders of the Arabs and who are still at the United Nations have disavowed what was revealed to Prophet Muhammad," he said.
"Under no circumstances should a Muslim - or any sane person for that matter - resort to the United Nations.
Muslims 'slaughtered'
"The United Nations is only one of the tools of crime. Every day we are being slaughtered and the United Nations does not lift a finger.
"For over 50 years, our brothers in Kashmir have been suffering the worst pain. They have been killed and slaughtered and their honour, blood, and homes are being violated and the United Nations did not lift a finger," he said.
"Today, without any evidence, the United Nations peddles the resolutions that support the unjust and tyrant America against a helpless people who have just come out of a fierce war against the Russian Federation."
He said there was no evidence linking Afghanistan to the 11 September attacks on the United States.
"The entire West, with the exception of a few countries, supports this unfair, barbaric campaign, although there is no evidence of the involvement of the people of Afghanistan in what happened in America.
"The people of Afghanistan had nothing to do with this matter. The campaign, however, continues to unjustly annihilate villagers and civilians: children, women, and innocent people," he said.
US curbs coverage
Al-Jazeera has previously broadcast statements by Bin Laden and a spokesman for his al-Qaeda organisation, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, which praised the 11 September attacks and warned that more would follow.
The United States says it has evidence of al-Qaeda's role in the attacks which killed more than 4,000 people.
Five major US television networks have agreed to limit broadcasts of statements by Bin Laden and his associates.
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said that broadcasts from suspected terrorists could contain anything from incitement to coded messages.
The US has put pressure on Qatar over the television station's coverage.
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