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al-Qaida Boss Warns U.S. Over Detainees
A new audiotape purportedly from Osama bin Laden's top deputy warns the United States that it will pay dearly if it harms detainees at Guantanamo Bay. The tape, broadcast Sunday, urges Muslims everywhere to avenge the prisoners. The Arab satellite station Al-Arabiya said the tape was from Ayman Al-Zawahri. According to the tape, the threat was a response to Washington's announcement that it will start putting the detainees on military trials that could result in death sentences. "I swear by the almighty God ... that crusader America will pay dearly for any harm done to any of the Muslim prisoners it is holding," the recording said. The Arabic recording said every prisoner held by the "infidels" should know that his release is a "debt hanging from the neck of every" Muslim fighter and that "his brothers have not forgotten that they will avenge him from the new crusaders. "But we tell America one thing: what you have seen so far is nothing but the first skirmishes. The real battle hasn't started yet."
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-08-03 |
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