al Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden speaks to a selected group of reporters in mountains of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan Thursday, Dec. 24, 1998. The man accused of masterminding the bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa says the U.S.-British airstrikes on Iraq make it a “duty of Muslims to confront, fight and kill” Americans and Britons. (AP Photo/Rahimullah Yousafzai)
