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Text of Excerpts of Al-Zahawri Video Aired by Al-Jazeera
A text of excerpts from a new videotape released by al-Qaida's No. 2 leader Ayman al-Zawahri. This is an Associated Press translation from the Arabic of three portions of the video that were broadcast on the Arab television station Al-Jazeera. The station said the entire video was five minutes long.
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As for the English people, I tell them that (Prime Minister Tony) Blair has brought to you destruction in central London, and he will bring more of that, God willing. Nations of the crusader alliance, we asked that you get your hands off the Muslims, and we and the lion of Islam, the fighter Sheik Osama bin Laden, God preserves him, offered you a truce to withdraw from the house of Islam.

Hasn't Sheik Osama bin Laden told you that you will not dream of security before we live it as a reality in Palestine and before all the infidel armies withdraw from the land of Muhammad, peace be upon him? But you spilled blood like rivers in our countries, so we exploded the volcanoes of wrath in your countries.

Our message is clear, obvious and decisive: There is no escape for you unless you withdraw from our land, unless you stop stealing our oil and wealth and stop supporting the corrupt rulers.

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What you have seen in New York and Washington, you Americans, and the losses you see in Afghanistan and Iraq - despite the media blackout- are merely the losses from the initial clashes. If you go on with the same policy of aggression against Muslims, you will see, God willing, what will make you forget the horrible things in Vietnam.

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The fact that (President) Bush, (Secretary of State Condoleezza) Rice and (Defense Secretary Donald H.) Rumsfeld are hiding is that there is no exit from Iraq except in immediate withdrawal. Any delay in taking that decision means nothing but more dead, more losses. If you don't leave today, certainly you will leave tomorrow, but after tens of thousands of dead and double the number of disabled and wounded.

The same propaganda and lies that they circulated about Vietnam are being repeated today in Iraq. They told you that they would give the Vietnamese control over their own affairs and that they were defending freedom in Vietnam.
Have at it, folks

Posted by: Steve 2005-08-04
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