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Bin Laden calls for Jihad against Americans, Jews

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The Billionaire Osama Bin Laden, who is accused by Washington of being behind the two attacks that targeted the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam has called for al-Jihad against Americans, Jews and Christians.

Bin Laden said in an interview broadcast by CBS, which was made two weeks earlier in an unidentified place in the desert in Afghanistan, that, "All Americans are our enemies, not only those who fight us directly but those who also pay their taxes."

He added, "We have formed an Islamic front to continue the fight against the Jews and Christians. We appeal to the God Almighty to open the way before us to fight them."

The Islamic Billionaire who is deprived of his Saudi nationality, lives in exile in Afghanistan.

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