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Bin Laden vows to fight Israel on 60th anniversary

DUBAI
Fri May 16, 2008 4:49am EDT
Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden speaks at a news conference in Afghanistan in a 1998 file photo. REUTERS/Stringer/Files

DUBAI (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden vowed in an audio tape marking Israel's 60th anniversary celebrations to continue the fight against the Jewish state and not give up an inch of Palestinian land.

"We will continue, God permitting, the fight against the Israelis and their allies ... and will not give up a single inch of Palestine as long as there is one true Muslim on earth," the Saudi-born al Qaeda leader said in the tape posted on an Islamist website on Friday.

The authenticity of the tape could not immediately be verified but the voice sounded like bin Laden.

(Reporting by Lin Noueihed)


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