Bin Laden compares US "barbaric" acts to Saddam's - Yahoo! News

Bin Laden compares US "barbaric" acts to Saddam's - Yahoo! News: "Feb 19, 6:47 PM ET

DUBAI (Reuters) -
Osama bin Laden accused U.S. forces of 'barbaric' acts in
Iraq comparable to those committed by
Saddam Hussein, according to an audio tape first broadcast in January and posted on the Internet in full on Monday.
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'The (U.S.) criminality has gone as far as raping women and holding them hostage before their husbands ... as for the torture of men it has now come to the use of burning chemical acids and electric drills in their joints,' he said in the tape posted with an English-language voice over.

'Despite all these barbaric methods ... the mujahideen are strengthening and increasing by the grace of Allah,' he said."