Bin Laden urges Europeans to stop fighting alongside US

Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden called on Europeans to stop helping the United States in the war in Afghanistan, according to excerpts of a new audiotape broadcast on Al-Jazeera television.

Bin Laden said it was unjust for the United States to have invaded Afghanistan for sheltering him after the September 11 terror attacks, saying he was the “only one responsible” for the deadly assaults on New York and Washington in 2001.