[30 October 2004] CAIRO,(Saba) - Osama bin Laden, in a statement directed to the American people days before the presidential election, says the United States must stop threatening the security of Muslims if it wants to avoid another Sept. 11-style attack.

Both candidates accused the other of playing politics with the war on terror following the airing by the Al-Jazeera television network of a videotape from the mastermind behind September 11, 2001 strikes on New York and Washington that left some 3,000 people dead.

Bin Laden refrained from directly warning of new attacks in the video, his first in more than a year, although he said “there are still reasons to repeat what happened.”

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