Saudi terror mastermind Osama bin Laden warned three weeks ago that his followers would carry out an “unprecedented” attack on U.S. sites because of American support for Israel, according to an Arab journalist. Abdel Atwan, editor of the London-based Al Quds newspaper, told Reuters that he had received information of “very, very big attacks against American interests,” but added, “We did not take it so seriously, preferring to see what would happen before reporting it.”
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