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Bin Laden: 'Fire and Iron' Can Free Gaza

In new tape, al-Qaeda pushes continued violence against US in Iraq

By Caroline Zimmerman,  Newser User

Posted Mar 20, 2008 6:09 PM CDT

(Newser) – Osama bin Laden calls followers to arms to stop the blockade on Gaza in a tape broadcast today on Al-Jazeera. Israel did not take the Palestinian territory "by negotiations and dialogue but with fire and iron. And this is the way to get it back," he said, adding that fighting US forces in Iraq was the main route to "liberating Palestine."

Bin Laden's remarks follow his accusations against the Vatican and the EU made public in a recording broadcast on an Islamist website yesterday, Reuters reports. In it, bin Laden threatens to discipline the EU for Denmark's publication of anti-Islamic cartoons, and he accuses the pope of conducting a "new crusade" against Muslims.

This image released by al-Qaida's media unit as-Sahab and taken from a militant Web site shows an undated photo of Osama bin Laden as part of an audiotaped speech posted late Wed., March 19, 2008.
This image released by al-Qaida's media unit as-Sahab and taken from a militant Web site shows an undated photo of Osama bin Laden as part of an audiotaped speech posted late Wed., March 19, 2008.   (AP Photo)
Pakistani protesters burn a representation of the Danish flag during a rally against the republishing of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in Danish newspapers in Karachi, Pakistan.
Pakistani protesters burn a representation of the Danish flag during a rally against the republishing of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in Danish newspapers in Karachi, Pakistan.   (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
Osama bin Laden speaks to a selected group of reporters in the mountains of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan in this Dec. 24, 1998 file photo.
Osama bin Laden speaks to a selected group of reporters in the mountains of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan in this Dec. 24, 1998 file photo.   (AP Photo/Rahimullah Yousafzai, File)
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