An audio tape purportedly recorded by a senior member of the al-Qaeda network has called for attacks on the US and its allies.
The speaker is identified as Ayman al-Zawahri, Osama Bin Laden's deputy.
The tape, aired on Arabic television channel al-Jazeera, calls for organised resistance against invading "crusaders" in the Muslim world.
[The Muslims wouldn't let President Bush refer to the WOT even once as a "crusade," even though other commanders like Ike had used it in reference to WWII, but the IslamoNazis use the "c-word" with impunity!
As an additional note, OBL made the same complaint that Zawahiri did about the presence of "infidel" or "crusader" soldiers in the "holy land of Islam" before 9/11 when our troops were merely stationed in Soddy Arabia, attacking no one, so there goes the Left's argument that OIF "made them more violent."--J.T.]
In addition to the US and the UK, the speaker singles out Australia, France, Poland, Norway, South Korea and Japan.
[Kerry also forgot to tell the Z-man that the U.S. really doesn't have any allies in the war, either, as well as Saddam's Iraq not being linked to AQ and the 9/11 attacks.
Looks as if staying out of the war hasn't kept the French all that safe from attack. Guess AQ thinks the head scarf ban is just as bad as sending troops against them. Tant pis!]
He says the countries cited took part in the invasion of Afghanistan, Iraq or Chechnya and gave Israel "means of survival".
He also says it is the duty of every Muslim to liberate "Palestine", and says the West is complicit in the deaths of Palestinian militant leaders.
[...and yet they express no regret or remorse about all of the Americans, Brits and Westerners they've murdered.--J.T.]
"In Palestine, we do not only face the Jews, but we also face the global coalition against Islam, led by the crusader and Zionist United States and the crusader West and the agent leaders behind them."
[Zawahiri's jihad and fatwa cast a big net, don't they?]
Unusually for tapes attributed to Zawahri, the speaker alludes to the possibility that he might die.
"If we die or are detained, continue the path after us," the speaker is quoted as saying.
Cool.
(Or is that his only leg? These killers always seem to have limbs missing from explosions that "went wrong.")
The Ass. Press version of this story includes this interesting warning from al-Zawahiri:
Don't look now, but the Bush Doctrine of spreading democracy in the Middle East as a "cure" for radical Islamic jihad and theocratic tyranny is working... BIG TIME.
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