12nov01

• Bin Laden zou kernwapens hebben. Misdaadjournalist Bas van Hout werd eind vorige week opgevoerd als wapenexpert in RTL Boulevard (ik verzin het niet) en vertelde de kijkers hoe goed het mogelijk is dat bin Laden de Big One in een van zijn koffers zou hebben. Het nieuws over de kernbommen van bin Laden stond in de Pakistaanse krant Ausaf dat een interview had met bin Laden. 'But, while the English-language newspaper carries a clear message from Bin Laden that he has access to such weapons, he makes no such claim in an Urdu-language version of the interview', schrijft de BBC. '[...] in the Urdu version of the article, Bin Laden does not threaten to use nuclear or chemical weapons. "The US is using chemical weapons against us and it has also decided to use nuclear weapons. But our war will continue," he says, according to the BBC's own translation of the Ausaf article.'



• Abdullah, de zoon van Lee Harvey Osama bin Laden, zegt in HUMO: 'Ik kan u met de hand op mijn hart verzekeren dat mijn vader met die aanslagen niets te maken heeft'. Het interview is overgenomen uit de Sunday Mirror. Erin vertelt Abdullah over bunkers van 15 kilometer lang, en andere redenen waarom de terreurzaaiende anti-terroristen vader bin Laden niet te pakken zullen krijgen. 'Bin Laden refused to say whether or not he was behind the US attacks, describing the targets as the American icons of military and economic power', schrijft de BBC over uit het Ausaf-artikel.



• In een ANP-bericht van 24 oktober staat te lezen hoe helder de glazen bol is van het Witte Huis: 'At least some White House personnel were given [het anti-bioticum voor miltvuur] Cipro six weeks ago. [...] On the night of the Sept. 11 attacks, the White House Medical Office dispensed Cipro to staff accompanying Vice President Dick Cheney as he was secreted off to the safety of Camp David, and told them it was a precaution, according to one person directly involved. At that time, nobody could guess the dimensions of the terrorists' plot.'



• De kritische popgroep Rage Against The Machine schrijft: 'We've just been informed that Infopop, the company that hosts the Rage Against the Machine messageboard, will no longer donate their services to keep this message board running in light of repeated phone calls they have received from the Secret Service with regards to inflammatory posts on several of the forums.'



• 'The issue of Palestine, he [Ayman al-Zawrahi, de rechterhand van bin Laden] said, was the crux of the conflict, and al-Qaeda would continue to fight until what he termed "every last US Jewish soldier" had left Palestine, the Arabian peninsula, and all Muslim countries.'