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Letter, Said to be From bin Laden, Slams Pakistan
Thursday, November 01, 2001
(2:11 PM ET) (19:11 GMT)
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- CNN
Suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden reportedly condemned Pakistan's support of the U.S.-led military campaign against Afghanistan and called on all Muslims to combat "the crusader war against Islam," the Al Jazeera television network broadcast on Thursday.

The Qatar-based news network said a letter, dated November 1, was hand-delivered to its Kabul office on Thursday. There was no confirmation that the message came from bin Laden. But Al Jazeera, an Arabic-language station, said the letter's signature appeared authentic.

The letter, written in Arabic and directed to "My Muslim brothers in the clean land of Pakistan, civilians and military," said the killing of Muslims by U.S. forces has divided the world into two groups -- those under the Christian banner led by U.S. President Bush and those under the Muslim banner.

"The Pakistani government has stood under the banner of the cross, and God said, 'Tell the hypocrites that they shall meet painful punishm ent, and those who take the infidels as their leaders, as opposed to taking the believers, seek power from the infidels,'" the letter said.
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