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New Zawahiri Tape
According to CNN (link is to Fox News story siince CNN didn't have it on its website), Zawahiri says "If me or Osama are killed or captured, keep up the jihad against Americans and Jooos." I'm calling it now -- either Zawahiri has been captured or Osama has died of his mysterious liver ailment or (please God) both. Someone had instructions to release this tape if one or both of those incidents occurred. That's my bet.
Text below is from BBC. I'll be looking for full text as it comes in.
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. "If we die or are detained, continue the path after us," the speaker is quoted as saying by AP news agency.
Has he or Binny used this phrase before?
I think it's a quote from that song they sing in Louisianna:
"If I should die
"Before you do,
"Bury me out
"In the Blue Bayou..."
In addition to the US and the UK, the speaker singled out Australia, France, Poland, Norway, South Korea and Japan, saying their "interests... are spread everywhere." He says the countries cited had taken 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.
Fine by me.
"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."
Posted by: tibor 2004-10-01
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=44783