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Video of Bin Laden celebrating the attack - unfortunately it's in real media format

http://www.thisislondon.com/dynamic/news/top_story.html?in_review_id=462847&in_review_text_id=415530

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The Saudi dissident was last seen in public in February, at his son's wedding in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. In a speech there, which would be viewed by all but his close supporters as grotesque, he took the opportunity to celebrate the October suicide-bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen, which killed 17 American sailors. "The pieces of the bodies of infidels were flying like dust particles. If you had seen it with your own eyes ... your heart would have been filled with joy," he said.

His associate Zawahri has been indicted in the US in connection with the bombings of its embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, the same year he joined forces with Bin Laden.

While the hunt for Bin Laden continues, fears are growing about the retaliation he will seek in the event of an Allied attack. Based in part on information provided by intelligence sources in Britain, US officials have told members of Congress there is a "high probability" that terrorists linked to Bin Laden will try to launch another major assault on American targets in the near future.

One intelligence official told the members of Congress there is a "100 per cent" chance of an attack if the US makes a military strike against Afghanistan, the Washington Post reports today.

After the briefing Senator Richard Shelby, of the Senate intelligence committee, said: "We have to believe there will be another attempt by a terrorist group to hit us again. You can just about bet on it."

Officials are especially concerned about truck bomb and car bomb explosions that could be detonated near natural gas lines, power plants and other sites crucial to basic living.

The Coast Guard is boarding and searching ships in New York, Boston and other harbours and security is tightening around nuclear power plants, oil pipelines, refineries and other potential targets. The FBI has a plan to go "full tiltî for security during the first 72 hours after President Bush has launched a military operation.

Meanwhile America has sent Britain a "list of requestsî for military support in action against the Taliban and the Al Qaeda organisation in Afghanistan, which could come in two or three days, at the earliest.

Reports from defence sources in Pakistan suggest the UK will be asked for support facilities such as tankers for air-to-air fuelling and airborne early warning planes. HMS Trafalgar, the nuclear hunter-killer submarine could be called on to fire Tomahawk cruise missiles.
 
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