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An audio recording in which Osama Bin Laden vows never to be taken aliver is posted to the internet. The Al Qaeda leader also said that there is "no longer any mentionable difference between [US] criminality and the criminality of Saddam". The tape had originally been broadcast on January 19th, 20 ... |
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Osama bin Laden releases a new audiotape in which he declares Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to be the "emir of the al-Qaeda Organization in the Land of Two Rivers," and that "We in the al-Qaeda Organization strongly welcome their joining hands with us." Bin Laden also made it clear that all who take part i ... |
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U.S. light crude soared $2.10 to $46.28 a barrel, for a week gain of 14% with prices at their highest level since early December. London Brent was up $1.96 at $43.39 a barrel. Analysts attribute the reason to be frigid weather lingering in the Northeastern United States as well as bin Laden's audi ... |
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Another Osama bin Laden audio tape is released. The content praises those who attacked the U.S. consulate in Saudi Arabia on December 6th and warns the rulers of Saudi Arabia that they may suffer the same fate as the Shah of Iran. He also urges militants to concentrate their attacks on Iraqi and G ... |
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U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge raises the terrorism threat level to orange, or high, for the financial services sector of New York City, northern New Jersey and Washington, DC. In his comments, Ridge cited "new and unusually specific information about where al Qaeda would like to attac ... |
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Taking advantage of Saudi Arabia's one month period of surrender-for-leniency, long time Osama Bin Laden ally Khaled al-Harbi surrenders himself to the Saudi Embassy in Tehran, and is flown to Saudi Arabia. He is technically not eligible for the deal because he has never been charged with attacks i ... |
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A truck bomb explodes in the World Trade Center parking garage killing six people and injuring many others. Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman and an accomplice will be convicted for the crime in November of 1997. |
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