removes Osama bin Laden’s ‘Letter to America’ after it goes viral on TikTok

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THE GUARDIAN HAS removed from its website a 21-year-old message written by Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, after it was shared several million times on social media. Bin Laden’s “Letter to America” began being shared on TikTok on Tuesday, sparking a fierce debate about US backing for Israel in its current war against Hamas. Bin Laden was the mastermind of the 11 September attacks 22 years ago that killed nearly 3,000 people by crashing passenger jets into the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon. The White House sharply criticized the online phenomenon and TikTok said it was...