(AKI) - Al-Qaeda's late commander in Afghanistan, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, warns 'Crusader' countries against offending Islam in a posthumous video released by the terror network's media arm.He's dead and we're not, so who won that argument?
In the undated video posted by Al-Sahab to extremist websites, al-Yazid refers to the deadly suicide attack in June against the Danish embassy in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. "What happened at the embassy is only the beginning," al-Yazid says.
The attack killed six people, all Pakistani, purportedly in revenge for cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed first published in 2005 by Danish daily, Jyllands-Posten, and republished by scores of newspapers worldwide. "We warned you in the past and now we are warning you again, especially Crusader countries," he continues. "If you offend the Prophet and the Koran in your media, and continue to occupy our countries and plunder our natural resources, we will take revenge, in the right time and place."
Before he died in clashes with Pakistani troops near the Afghan border last month, Al-Yadiz said Al-Qaeda had carried out the attack against the Danish embassy in Islamabad. He claimed the attack in a rare interview with Pakistan's Geo TV network in July.
Al-Yazid announced that the video would be released before he was killed in early August in the Bajaur tribal area in Pakistan's northwest. In the interview with Geo TV, Yazid says Al-Qaeda is expanding its areas of operation beyond southern Afghanistan to the northern provinces and would be "able to wrestle Afghanistan free of foreign occupation very soon."