Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden warned Sunni Muslims in Iraq not to take up arms against the terror network and promised the "liberation of Palestine" in a new online message. In the 56-minute tape released late on Saturday, the Western world's most wanted man also accused the United States of seeking to control the region through the Iraqi government.
Palestinians were given a powerful signal of international and Arab support for an independent state on Monday night, with $7,4-billion in aid to revive their moribund economy and bolster renewed but faltering peace negotiations with Israel.
