Bin Laden says he is Iraqi partner - Powell
US Secretary of State Colin Powell warned today that what appears to be a new threat from Osama bin Laden shows why the world needs to be concerned about Iraqi ties to terrorism.
Powell said he read a transcript of “what bin Laden – or who we believe to be bin Laden” will be saying on the Al-Jazeera Arab satellite station later today, “where once again he speaks to the people of Iraq and talks about their struggle and how he is in partnership with Iraq.”
“This nexus between terrorists and states that are developing weapons of mass destruction can no longer be looked away from and ignored,” Powell told the Senate Budget Committee.
In Cairo, Al-Jazeera chief editor Ibrahim Hilal said his station had no such tape of bin Laden.
