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(not posting to breaking) Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden will issue the next of his video messages after a massive attack on US territory, Saudi weekly Al-Majallah quotes an official of the terror network as saying, in its next edition. Quoting an e-mail received from a man who goes by the name of Abu Mohammed al-Ablaj, the weekly reports that "an emissary of bin Laden has informed me that the al-Qaeda chief's (next) appearance (on video cassette) will come after a deadly, far-reaching operation on American territory. "In the video, bin Laden will evoke the success of his backers in...

BACKGROUNDER: Compiled by Bill Gertz Intelligence points to early November attack by Al Qaida U.S. intelligence officials said Al Qaida terrorists might be planning a major attack in early November. Preparations for the attack were said to have been completed by the end of October. But the attack was put off until early November, the sources said. A key indicator was the recent taped message from Osama bin Laden, which U.S. officials said is often a prelude to Al Qaida attacks. A statement published last week in the London Arabic newspaper, Al Majallah, bolstered intelligence of the impending attack. The...

OSAMA bin Laden's al-Qaeda terror network is planning a "death blow" against Americans during the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, a Saudi magazine reports in its issue due out today. "Al-Qaeda is going to carry out a death blow against Americans during the month of Ramadan," Al-Majallah said, quoting an e-mail sent by Abu Mohammed al-Ablaj, identified as a senior member of al-Qaeda. Ablaj, who regularly communicates with the London-based weekly via e-mail, did not specify if the threatened strike will be carried out in the United States or against American interests abroad. "Muslims have the right to draw...

<p>CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - A London-based Arabic magazine said it has obtained the will of Osama bin Laden in which he accuses fellow Muslim leaders of betraying him in the face of the American campaign to destroy his al-Qaida movement.</p>

Al-Sharif Ali Bin al-Hussein, the official spokesman for the Iraqi opposition National Congress stressed that the aim of the US is toppling the Iraqi regime, rather than occupying Iraq and colonizing it. In a statement to the London- based weekly al-Majallah (the magazine) issued on Sunday, al-Sharif Ali did not rule out that monarchy will come back to Iraq after the US invades it. He explained that the Iraqi people had experience the republican form of government for 40 years and today according to our contacts with the Iraqis, the majority of the Iraqi people prefer to return back to...