Foreign Minister Shimon Peres criticized Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden for linking the Sept. 11 attacks against the United States to the Palestinian cause. “What’s he blabbering about?” Peres told Israel Radio. “You don’t need any war of liberation for the Palestinians. We offered them liberation without war.”
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