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<p>DOHA, Qatar (CNN) -- In an audiotape broadcast Tuesday on the Arabic television network Al-Jazeera, a voice purported to be that of Osama bin Laden called on Muslims to fight any U.S.-led attack on Iraq and warned leaders of Islamic nations not to help the so-called enemy.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON - In a chilling new audiotape, Osama bin Laden yesterday urged suicide attacks against Americans if there's a war with Iraq - and said his network of fanatics will fight alongside the Iraqis.</p> <p>Bin Laden, who has not been heard from since November, expressed solidarity with the Iraqi people and gave them tips on fighting Americans - but he pointedly called the government of Saddam Hussein "infidels."</p>

CIA, FBI directors say al-Qaeda threat remains strong 02/11/2003 By MICHELLE MITTELSTADT / The Dallas Morning News WASHINGTON -- The al-Qaeda terrorist network remains a dangerous and ruthless foe, plotting more attacks perhaps as early as this week against the United States and its allies, the heads of the CIA and FBI told Congress today. But, with war looming against Iraq and a nuclear crisis brewing on the Korean Peninsula, al-Qaeda is not the only danger on the horizon, CIA Director George Tenet and FBI Director Robert Mueller said. "The national security environment that exists today is significantly more...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- White House and State Department officials Tuesday confirmed the authenticity of an audiotape with Osama bin Laden's voice aired on the al Jazeera network in which the al Qaida leader urges the Iraqi people to engage in martyrdom operations against American "crusaders." On the tape, bin Laden says: "Those who attack your brothers cannot be your friend. Fight with them, even if it means sacrificing your life for defending your brothers. Iraq is not an aggressor, America is." He went on to say, "We hope that our brothers in Iraq will learn from our martyrs...