Osama bin Laden’s deputy warned that Persian Gulf countries and Israel would be al-Qaida’s next targets, according to a new videotape aired by Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera on Monday, the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Ayman al-Zawahri also accused the governments of Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia of supporting Israel’s war against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Addressing the West, the al-Qaida No. 2 said, “You should not waste your time in reinforcing your troops in Iraq and Afghanistan because their fate is doomed … Instead, you have to reinforce your troops in two regions. First is the Gulf, where you would be thrown out … and second is Israel.”
He also condemned the U.N. peacekeeping force now deploying in Lebanon under terms set out in a cease-fire resolution.
“What is so terrible in this resolution … is that it approves the existence of the Jewish state and isolates our mujahedeen in Palestine from Muslims in Lebanon,” he said in excerpts of the video aired on Al-Jazeera television.
“This is consecrated by the presence of international troops who are hostile to Islam,” he said. “Anyone who accepts this resolution means that he accepts all these catastrophes.”
In other portions of the tape aired by CNN earlier Monday, al-Zawahri urged Muslims to intensify their resistance against the United States and warned in general terms of new terror strikes.
And if the patterns are correct, there is something in the works!
Would,nt you just like to go into that area where bin laden and his followers are with one of those martian ships from the classic movie WAR OF THE WORLDS and go about with that heat ray blasting them all to ashes?:mad:
Consider the results of conservative rule since September 11th, 2001:
*the Bin Laden trail has gone cold
*we’ve fanned radical Islamic hatred
*alienated our allies
*weakened our military
*and failed to focus fully on strengthening homeland security.
*the Bin Laden trail has gone cold
It went cold during the Klinton Admin.
*we’ve fanned radical Islamic hatred
Yup, now they really hate us. Before, they just disliked us.
*alienated our allies
You mean all those nations that keep voting with us in the U.N.?
*weakened our military
Try asking the troops themselves about that. Or are you saying it was better when they had a CIC that loathed them?
*and failed to focus fully on strengthening homeland security.
We never really had any foucs on homeland security. Hardly a Republican invention.
I will celebrate the day when we hear the news that this Zawahiri has been killed, like Zarqawi. It is just a matter of time for him.