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Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, urged Muslims to intensify their resistance against the U.S. and warned of new terror strikes in a video aired by CNN early Monday on the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Al-Zawahri said the Persian Gulf and Israel would be al-Qaida's next targets.
The film was the latest in a flurry of al-Qaida videos released ahead of the anniversary. But unlike the others, it appeared to be new with references to Israel's bombardment of Lebanon this summer and the capture of Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah and Palestinian militants in Gaza.
"You gave us every legitimacy and every opportunity to continue fighting you," said al-Zawahri, al-Qaida's No 2, addressing the U.S. "You should worry about your presence in the (Persian) Gulf, and the second place you should worry about is Israel."
The video shows the Egyptian-born Al-Zawahri dressed in white and seated in front of a wall of bookshelves.
"Your leaders are hiding from you the true extent of the disaster," he said. "And the days are pregnant and giving birth to new events, with Allah's permission and guidance."
Al-Zawahri criticized the West for supplying Israel with weapons,and called on the Muslim world "to rush with everything at its disposal to the aid of its
Muslim brothers in Lebanon and Gaza."
The video could not be located by The Associated Press on any militant
Web sites that normally carry messages and videos from al-Zawahri and other al-Qaida figures. As-Sahab, the terror network's media arm, posted notices late Sunday that the video would be posted shortly but it was not yet available early Monday.
It was unclear where CNN got the video. The network quoted a counterterrorism expert as saying the video had appeared on the Web site for As-Sahab, but the production company normally uses other Islamic Web sites to post its material. The SITE Institute, an organization that monitors militant Web sites, later said it too had obtained a copy of the one-hour, 16-minute video.
Late Sunday, another videotape posted on the Internet, purportedly by al-Qaida, showed previously unseen footage of a smiling Bin Laden and other commanders in a mountain camp apparently planning the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington.
http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/al-qaida-issues-911-anniversary-video/n20060911025709990002
The film was the latest in a flurry of al-Qaida videos released ahead of the anniversary. But unlike the others, it appeared to be new with references to Israel's bombardment of Lebanon this summer and the capture of Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah and Palestinian militants in Gaza.
"You gave us every legitimacy and every opportunity to continue fighting you," said al-Zawahri, al-Qaida's No 2, addressing the U.S. "You should worry about your presence in the (Persian) Gulf, and the second place you should worry about is Israel."
The video shows the Egyptian-born Al-Zawahri dressed in white and seated in front of a wall of bookshelves.
"Your leaders are hiding from you the true extent of the disaster," he said. "And the days are pregnant and giving birth to new events, with Allah's permission and guidance."
Al-Zawahri criticized the West for supplying Israel with weapons,and called on the Muslim world "to rush with everything at its disposal to the aid of its
Muslim brothers in Lebanon and Gaza."
The video could not be located by The Associated Press on any militant
Web sites that normally carry messages and videos from al-Zawahri and other al-Qaida figures. As-Sahab, the terror network's media arm, posted notices late Sunday that the video would be posted shortly but it was not yet available early Monday.
It was unclear where CNN got the video. The network quoted a counterterrorism expert as saying the video had appeared on the Web site for As-Sahab, but the production company normally uses other Islamic Web sites to post its material. The SITE Institute, an organization that monitors militant Web sites, later said it too had obtained a copy of the one-hour, 16-minute video.
Late Sunday, another videotape posted on the Internet, purportedly by al-Qaida, showed previously unseen footage of a smiling Bin Laden and other commanders in a mountain camp apparently planning the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington.
http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/al-qaida-issues-911-anniversary-video/n20060911025709990002
