Al Qaida's Zawahiri issues new warning to the US and UK to withdraw from Muslim lands
August 4, 2005
Al Qaida issues new warning to Britain
Gulf News, Agencies
August 4, 2005
Al Jazeera TV on Thursday aired a video by Osama Bin Laden’s deputy warning Britons that Tony Blair’s policies will bring more destruction to London.
"Blair's policies will bring more destruction to Britons after the London explosions," warned Ayman Al Zawahri, Al Qaida’s second in command on the tape.
His warnings came as thousands of police mounted a huge operation to protect London, four weeks after suicide bombers killed at least 52 people in the city.
Zawahiri also warned the Americans of attacks worse than the war in Vietnam.
"The Americans... will see horror that would make them forget the horror they saw in Vietnam," he said.
The United States believes Zawahiri, who has a 25-million-dollar bounty on his head, is the main strategist and key ideologist in the Al Qaida hierarchy.
Zawahri says British policy to bring more destruction
Khaleej Times, 4 August 2005
DUBAI - Al Qaeda’s second in command Ayman Al Zawahri warned Britons in a video aired on Thursday that Prime Minister Tony Blair’s policies will bring more destruction to London.
He also warned the United States that Al Qaeda will continue to launch deadly attacks until US troops quit all Muslim countries.
“Blair’s policies brought you destruction in central London and will bring you more destruction…” Zawahri, Osama bin Laden’s deputy, said in a tape aired by Al Jazeera television.
“What you have seen in New York, Washington and Afghanistan, are only the initial losses and if you (United States) continue the same hostile policies you will see what will make you forget those horrors,” he said in reference to the Sept. 11 attacks.
He said bin Laden had offered a truce to Western countries asking them to pull out their armies from Iraq and Afghanistan in order to live in peace.
“To the people of the crusader coalition ... our blessed Shaikh Osama has offered you a truce so that you leave Muslim land. As he said you will not dream of security until we live it as a reality in Palestine and until all your infidel armies leave Prophet Mohammad’s lands,” he said.
“Our message to you is clear, strong and final: There will be no salvation until you withdraw from our land, stop stealing our oil and resources and end support for infidel rulers,” Zawahri added.