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#1 Student Business Informational Meetings: Monday, February 17 5:30 PM RHUU 203 Tuesday, February 18 5:30 PM RHUU 203 The Student Business Incubator Center is looking for # students who have ideas for starting their own business. Six new companies will be adde.d to the Center this spring. • lMgLW>iE) ®m M©T LjMT€B> 7©; Capital up to $1,000 Local telephone and computer connection Computer workstations with printer Financial Management/Accounting software Access to business machines Rent-free office space at 1233 Washington Street Legal and business advice Applications are available online at www.sg.sc.edu and are due Wednesday, March 3, 2003 by 12:00 pm in Russell House, Carolina Underground. Bin Laden CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Eid al-Adha, the speaker advised Iraqis how to fight the Americans, based on al-Qaida’s experience in Afghanistan. “We stress the importance of martyrdom operations against the enemy, these attacks that have scared Americans and Israelis like never before,” the man identified as bin Laden said. "We advise about the impor tance of drawing the enemy into long, close and exhausting fight ing, taking advantage of camou flaged positions in plains, farms, mountains and cities,” he said. The speaker urged the Iraqis to draw the Americans into urban combat, saying “the thing that the enemy fears the most is to fight a city war.” U.S. military planners fear Saddam might ring Baghdad with his best troops of the elite Republican Guard and draw U.S. forces into bloody street fighting where they could not use their high-tech weapons for fear of caus ing massive civilian casualties. The speaker also told Iraqis not to worry about American smart bombs and laser-guided weapons because “they work on only the clear, obvious targets.” He en couraged Iraqis to use deception techniques to neutralize American technological superiority. Some Middle East experts have questioned ties between bin Laden’s Islamic extremists and Saddam’s government, which nom inally adheres to a Pan-Arabic so cialistic doctrine called Baathism. In the tape, however, the speak er said it was acceptable for Muslims to fight on behalf of Iraqi “socialists” because “in these cir cumstances” their interests “in tersect in fighting against the Crusaders,” or Christians. U.S. counterterrorism officials in Washington said the audio mes sage was probably a real record ing of bin Laden, and that a tech nical analysis was planned to au thenticate it. The officials, speak ing on the condition of anonymi ty, said it was unclear when the recording was made but said it was probably recent, given all the attention the speaker gave to Iraq. Yasser Thabet, a broadcast edi tor at Al-Jazeera, said the station received the tape by the same chan nels as previous bin Laden state tnents, but he did not give details. Bin Laden often used Al Jazeera to broadcast statements during the Afghanistan war until the elusive terrorist leader van ished after the battle at Tora Bora in December 2001. Al-Jazeera is not widely seen in Iraq because few Iraqis are per mitted to have satellite dishes. However, many of them listen to foreign Arabic broadcasts which relayed details of the broadcast. There was no immediate com- - •ment from the Iraqi government, which has repeatedly denied links with al-Qaida. • Bin Laden’s previous state ments have not gone nearly as far in expressing solidarity with Iraq, counterterrorism officials in Washington said. In Washington, CIA Director George J. Tenet said intelligence information suggests al-Qaida may launch attacks as early as this week in both the United States - and on the Arabian peninsula. “The intelligence is not idle chatter on the part of terrorists and their associates,” Tenet told Congress. “It is the most specific we have seen, and it is consistent with both our knowledge of al Qaida’s doctrine and our knowl edge of plots this network - and particularly its senior leadership - has been working on for years.” Tenet said the information sug gests the attack may involve a “dirty bomb” — a weapon that spreads radioactive material over a wide area — or chemical or poi son weapons. On the tape, the speaker urged other Muslims not to cooperate with the United States in a show down against Iraq. He criticized Arab governments that support U.N. efforts to rid Iraq of alleged weapons of mass destruction. “Anyone who helps America, from the Iraqi hypocrites (opposi tion) or Arab rulers ... whoever fights with them or offers them bases or administrative assistance, or any kind of support or help, even if only-with words, to kill Muslims in Iraq, should know that he is an apostate,” the speaker said. Black History Month Events February 10 Higher Lemingldkmm RH Theater-Carolina Productions • February 17 Bamboozled Movie/Discussion RH Theater sponsored by Carolina Productions February 20 Black History Quiz Bowl 6pm RH Theater February 11 Movie Night Imitation ofUfe 8pm RH Theater sponsored by Carolina Productions Fetmrj119 Mom Night BmSqr RHTheater-sponsored liy CarolinaProductkiis February 24 NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner RH Ballroom 7pm -1 Applications now available in the Carolina Productions Office, RH suite 235 Applications are due 12:00pm Feb 14,2003