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He also brought up Jammu and Kashmir in his speech, saying that Muslims in the region had been subjected to untold suffering.
The US state department also effectively banned the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed by designating them as 'foreign terrorist organisations', fulfilling a long-standing Indian demand, days before the visit of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to Washington.
In a scathing attack on the UN, Osama said the world body was an instrument of crime and blamed the world organisation for the 'suffering of Muslims'.
The terrorist mastermind once again reiterated that he would continue the fight against the US.
In Afghanistan, the ruling Taleban on Saturday suffered its first major setback when it lost control of a district near the town of Mazar-e-sharif, which the opposition Northern Alliance has been trying to capture for some time now.
Meanwhile, in a bid to get greater Russian cooperation in what is turning out to be a protracted US-led war against terrorism, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld headed for Russia on Friday night.
On Saturday morning, two US jets streaked over the Kabul sky dropping bombs, residents reported.
In Washington, Deputy Director of US Operations Rear Admiral John Stufflebeem claimed his forces were 'tightening the noose' around Osama though he could not tell how close they were to the suspected mastermind of terrorist attacks on the US.
The Pakistan Observer daily reported that Osama was spotted in Kahdahar where had had gone to boost the morale of the residents who were being subjected to carpet bombing by US-led forces.
President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday insisted that Pakistan would not open its border for refugees from Afghanistan even as 1,000 Pakistan tribesmen crossed into the other side to fight the US.
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