I too stand with Kerry. I stand with ALL Americans. I stand with America's friends and oppose America's enemies. We should all know by now who our enemies are. For those who have been living in a cave these past several years, please allow me to cite the following AP story in today's newspaper.

A London-based Arab journalist said Tuesday that bin Laden's followers warned his newspaper by telephone three weeks ago of a major attack. "They said it would be a huge and unprecedented attack but they did not specify," said Abdel-Bari Atwan, editor of the Al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper.

The callers had made similar threats previously "but this time it seems his people were accurate and meant every word they said," he said in London.

The United States has called bin Laden the architect of some of the worst acts of terrorism against Americans: the 1993 World Trade Center, the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa and last year's bombing of the USS Cole.

The FBI has a $5 million dollar bounty on bin Laden's head. The State Department calls him "one of the most significant sponsors of Islamic extremist activities in the world today."

Stripped of his Saudi citizenship, bin Laden has been hiding for five years in Afghanistan under Taliban protection.

He has repeatedly called on Muslims worldwide to join in a jihad, or holy war, and has declared war on the United States in religious edicts faxed to the outside world. "All U.S. citizens are legitimate targets", he has said.

"I am fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans", bin Laden was quoted by Al-Quds Al-Arabi as saying.

Last spring, bin Laden instructed aactivists attending a Muslim convention in Afghanistan to prepare the next generation for the jihad.

Bin Laden's group met earlier this year with the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad and the Egyptian al-Gamma al-Islamiya "to put in place a common strategy against the United States," Middle East expert Antoine Sfeir noted Tuesday, citing European intelligence sources.

"Bin Laden is the one with the financial means and the human needs and the logistic means," Sfeir said.

Earlier this summer, a federal jury in New York convicted four alleged bin Laden associates in connection with the 1998 embassy bombings in Africa, also a coordinated attac,.

In retalliation for the bombings, then President Clinton ordered missile strikes on bin Laden's suspected hideout, and Washington and the United Nations have exerted diplomacy and sanctions to get Afghanistan to hand him over.

It refuses, saying the United States has "no evidence" linking bin Laden to terrorism.

WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF BIN LADEN AND HIS FOLLOWERS. THE TIME HAS COME FOR THE WORLD TO RID HIM OF HIS TERRORISTIC MURDER AND MAYHEM AGENDA. If that paints me as a sheet and hood bad guy... I guess that's what I am. I'm in favor of granting this creep and all his follower's their wish ... "so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet (his) God."