- Osama bin Laden plans a TV suicide that will trigger
attacks on landmarks in London, Paris and the US.
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- His estranged wife Sabiha said last night he would order
his elder sons to shoot him rather than be captured.
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- Bin Laden: Appearance on Al-Jazera TV
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- Sabiha, 45, added: "That will be the signal for
a new wave of terror. The targets this time would be the Capitol building
in Washington, Big Ben in London and the Eiffel Tower in
Paris."
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- Her claims were broadcast on Russian television as
al-Qaeda
boss bin Laden reportedly led 1,000 loyalists into forests in Afghanistan
after being flushed out of his Tora Bora caves.
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- New evidence has also emerged of his role in the
September
11 atrocities in America.
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- In a 40-minute video tape obtained by the Pentagon, he
described the damage around the twin towers as "greater than
expected"
and praised Allah for the success of the attacks.
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- Bin Laden, 44, whose Saudi family run a multi-billion
dollar construction business, is said to have 15 children by three or four
wives.
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- Estranged wife Sabiha, who abandoned him after he took
another wife aged 17, revealed the "suicide" plan on Russian
TV channel, TV6.
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- Sabiha said he wanted his death and ultimate martyrdom
filmed by the al-Jazeera TV network, based in Gulf state Qatar.
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- It has broadcast several of bin Laden's rants against
the West since September 11.
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- Yesterday bin Laden's mother Alia spoke for the first
time about him, saying she was not angry with him - just disappointed by
his ideas and actions.
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- "Like all mothers, I am satisfied and pleased with
my son and pray to God to guide him and save him," she told a Saudi
newspaper. The family disowned him in 1994.
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- The fresh tape evidence of bin Laden's involvement in
the twin towers horror is said to have been found in a private home in
Jalalabad.
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- US Vice President Dick Cheney said: "He does, in
fact, display significant knowledge of what happened and there's no doubt
about his responsibility."
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- On the tape, bin Laden said he was at a dinner when he
was told the first plane had crashed into the Trade Center.
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- He shared the information with other guests and some
expressed surprise. He told them to stick around and then the second plane
hit and they cheered.
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- The tape also shows that bin Laden was amused some of
the hijackers were unaware it was a suicide mission.
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- A US official said: "He is amused by the fact that
some of these people who were martyred, they thought they were just taking
part in a hijacking.''
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- A second, hour-long tape, obtained by the Mirror in
Kabul,
shows bin Laden's hatred of America. It opens with newsreel footage of
Bill Clinton and George Bush on "Muslim soil".
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- Jabbing his finger, bin Laden urges his al-Qaeda
fighters:
"Our priority... is to rise up against America."
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