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SAUDI ARABIA: DAILY SAYS OSAMA BIN LADEN TO APPEAR ON TELEVISION AFTER AN AL QAEDA STRIKE IN AUGUST.(Brief Article)

IPR Strategic Business Information Database, July, 2002

Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization plans a major anti-United States attack, possibly in August, after which its leader will re-appear on television, a newspaper reported Tuesday. Asharq Al-Awsat, which on Monday reported that bin Laden might have been killed or seriously injured in US raids on Afghanistan, quoted "sources linked to aides" of the Saudi-born Islamist militant through the Internet.

Osama bin Laden, "is alive and will appear in a TV videotape after the operation is carried out to confirm that he is alive and will go on fighting America," the sources said, cited by AFP. They did not say whether the planned attack would target US forces in Afghanistan or elsewhere, but said it might be carried out in the month of August. Asharq Al-Awsat pointed...

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