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Date Posted: 10:07:04 03/24/02 Sun
Author: Buffy's vampire
Subject: Bomb Britain, not Iraq

George Dubya's logic for bombing Iraq is a bit weird. If you go on the evidence of Bin Laden's own telephone calls, it's not Iraq that's connected to the evil terrorist but Britain [that is, if you go on Dubya's dubious logic...]

Now read on...

Records of Osama Bin Laden's satellite phone calls reveal the key role played by terrorists based outside the Middle East and north Africa in the al-Qaeda bombing campaign of the late 1990s.

Calls to Britain, Italy, Malaysia, Pakistan, Azerbaijan and the United States were made from the phone in the two years before the bombings of US embassies in east Africa in August 1998 that left 244 dead.

The records, obtained by The Sunday Times in London, indicate the extensive nature of bin Laden's worldwide network, up to five years before the US attacks last September.

Al-Qaeda members and sympathisers in Iran, Sudan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Senegal were contacted during the period bin Laden and his right-hand man, Muhammad Atef, reportedly used the phone.

An omission from the list of countries is Iraq, denounced by President George Bush as part of an "axis of evil". But Iran, also cited by Mr Bush, received 106 calls over the period.

Bin Laden is believed to have ditched the phone, which cost $A29,000, two months after the embassy bombings, when he became convinced the US was able to track him via its signal.

By far the most popular destination was Britain, which received more than 260 calls, more than a quarter of the total. Two of the British men contacted, Khaled al-Fawwaz and Ibrahim Eidarous, are in custody waiting extradition to the US for allegedly taking part in the bombings, while a third, Mustafa Nazar, is believed to have left Britain in 1998 to fight with the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Italy received six calls, Malaysia four and the United States 13.

When the Herald called the satellite phone number, published by the paper, a recorded message said: "The mobile you have dialled is not logged on or is not in a dialled ocean region."

At least 13 of the calls were made to a phone on a ship in the Indian Ocean

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