(SomaliNet) The Al-Qaeda number two leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri has again commended the insurgent attacks in the Somalia capital Mogadishu and called on the Somali Jihadists to continue the war with the foreign occupiers and their allies. In a video tape posted on the net and aired by the Al-Jazeera TV on Wednesday, | Al-Zawahiri said that Muslims in Horn of Africa nation have the right to fight with the infidels that occupied their land. He said they are on the righteous path which leads them to paradise. |
Al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian doctor, said in a message Muslims in horn of Africa nation have the right to fight with the infidels that occupied their land. He said they are on the righteous path which leads them to paradise.
Al-Zawahiri said the Islamic fighters in Somalia are in holy struggle with foreign occupiers, offering an individual praise to the leader of the ousted Islamic Courts Union, Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed. He said that Sheik Ahmed, the Islamist leader has fallen in the hands of an enemy but Sheik Ahmed is now in Yemen for possible negotiation with the transitional government.
It is the second time that Al-Qaeda No 2 leader talked about Somalia affairs giving high spirit to the Islamist fighters to keep their struggle against the invaders. Earlier the Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had called on Islamist hardliners to carry out suicide attacks on the Ethiopian troops. |