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Article: Bin Laden asks Muslims worldwide to retaliate against the United States.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- August 21, 1998
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WASHINGTON _ Exiled Saudi Arabian millionaire Osama bin Laden is calling on Muslims worldwide to take up arms against the United States, attack American embassies and boycott American companies in retaliation for U.S. missile strikes against his camps in Afghanistan and a chemical plant in Sudan.
In a telephone interview with Knight Ridder, Sheikh Omar Barkri, bin Laden's spokesman in London, said Friday that the man he calls ``the true leader of the Islamic nation,'' has issued new anti-American communiques _ written only in Arabic _ urging Muslims to avoid U.S. embassies and installations _ and to fight Arab regimes friendly to the United States.
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