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Article: bin Laden organization issues statement instructing Muslims to avoid acting against civilians.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- August 24, 1998
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WASHINGTON _ The organization of militant Saudi Arabian exile Osama bin Laden sent another communique to his followers Monday that appears to soften his earlier inflammatory rhetoric, urging Muslims to avoid striking civilian targets as they intensify the battle to ``liberate Muslim countries from the crusaders and the Jews.''
In the new message, allegedly sent from bin Laden's camp in Afghanistan and signed by Sheikh Abdullah Abu Al-Farouq, the leader of the political wing of bin Laden's World Islamic Front, Muslim fighters were told: ``... make a jihad (holy war) for the cause of God and against enemies of Islam and Muslims, and do not direct your weapons ...