| Bin Laden says US attempts to freeze bank accounts won't work |
Osama bin Laden says US attempts to freeze his network's bank accounts won't affect its activities.
The Pakistani paper Ummat quotes him as saying his network is too big and sophisticated to stop.
The US has introduced measures to freeze the finances of terrorist groups like bin Laden's al-Qaida.
"It will not make any difference," bin Laden was quoted as saying in an interview with the Urdu language Ummat newspaper.
"By the grace of god, al-Qaida has three different alternative financial networks. It is being run around the world by well-educated young people. We do not have a few hundred or a few thousand but hundreds and thousands of highly educated young people, who are well aware of all these things and know the alternatives," the paper quotes him as saying.
The Karachi-based newspaper says it delivered its questions to bin Laden and received written responses through Taliban officials.
Story filed: 14:22 Friday 28th September 2001
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