Bin Laden calls for war on EU ‘crusaders’

TERRORIST leader Osama bin Laden issued ominous new threats yesterday, apparently seeking to justify attacks on civilians in the West and implying that the whole EU was at war with Islam.

He also called on his followers to go to Sudan to fight a proposed UN force in Darfur.

In his first new message in three months, the al-Qaida chief said in the audiotape that the West’s suspension of aid to the Palestinian Hamas-led government proved Washington and Europe were conducting “a Zionist (Jewish) crusaders (Christian) war on Islam”.