Bin Laden still commanding attacks - Saudi envoy

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http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5978630&cKey=1122831318000

LONDON (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden is still giving direct orders for al Qaeda attacks, Saudi Arabia's next ambassador to the United States said on Sunday.

Outgoing Saudi ambassador to Britain Prince Turki al-Faisal said some of the most recent attacks attributed to al Qaeda in the oil-rich kingdom had been directly ordered by the mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States.

"Some of the events (attacks) that occurred in the kingdom over the past 2-1/2 years were under the immediate directions of the leadership of al Qaeda, particularly bin Laden," Turki said in comments broadcast by Reuters Television on Sunday.

Saudi Arabia has been battling a two-year wave of violence by supporters of Saudi-born bin Laden's al Qaeda network, who are trying to drive Westerners out of the world's biggest oil exporter and destabilise the pro-Western ruling family.

[Old and In the Way]

1. Right...

OBL is dead. But it is interesting that SA is still using him to deflect attention away from their dirty hands...

[NNN0LHI]

3. Bush would have been happier had he said it was Al-Zarqawi

He is the boogieman of the month. I think Chimp boy would prefer we forget about bin Laden seeing he hasn't been able to smoke em out yet after four years of war. Christ, we were only involved in WW 2 for about 3 years.

Don

[xxqqqzme]

2. and I'm supposed 2 believe some

Saudi link 2 * because?????? The BFEE cashes in when the entire world lives in fear.

[MrSlayer]

4. Bin Laden connects through a Ouija board.

What utter bullshit.

[pretzel4gore]

5. tin cans and string

strung out between obl and his pony express (camel express, shurely!) osama says 'army corp 1v march east until encounter fog, then hide in caves: battlegroup ahmed will eat lunch, then practise storming flori-duh, to liberate the natives'...the voice wends its way along the string to another can where an allciado guy jots down instructions, then hurries off to deliver them to army corp 1v staff tent, and then he'll yell the orders to battlegroup ahmed (hopefully they're anchored close to shore)..
the logistics are kinda nutty, but this is georgebushamerica, and bush's nuts

[bahrbearian]

6. Who else would know better than the Saudi Government Official?

[rocktivity]

7. The Saudi envoy ought to know

Since Bin Laden is probably right there in Saudi Arabia in the loving arms of his family, the envoy probably heard this information straight out of Bin Laden's mouth!

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rocknation

[keopeli]

8. Such a troubling article. What about this is true?

We can assume that, if the new Saudi Ambassador to the US said it, then it has gone through a political filter which leaves us only shreds of information.

Perhaps this is another indicator of an impending large-scale war with Iran or a major offensive into Pakistan.

Perhaps local politics in Saudi Arabia are being played.

Remember, the Bin Ladens are personal friends of the Bush family. The Ambassodor will only invoke the name with the approval of George the first.

The news is coming through Reuters and the Swiss, which gives it a degree of credibility that is a notch up from anything in the US. It also gives it a European flavor - a place more hungry for the capture of OBL than is the US.

At the very least, I think this kind of news is troubling...very troubling.