Osama bin Laden's deputy has warned of fresh attacks from al-Qaeda - with Israel and the Gulf Arab states as the next targets - in a video message released today to coincide with the fifth anniversary of 9/11.
Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's No 2, said that "new events" which were on the way would seal the West’s economic downfall, and urged Muslims to intensify their battle against the USA and the West.
"We have repeatedly warned you and repeatedly offered a truce with you, and so we now have all legal and rational justification to continue to fight you until your power is destroyed or you give in and surrender," al-Zawahiri is reported as saying in the video, in an apparent address to Western leaders.
"You should not concern yourself with the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. They are already doomed."
"Instead you should worry about your presence in two areas. The first is the Gulf, from where you will be expelled, God willing, after your defeat in Iraq, and your economic ruin will be achieved.
"And the second is Israel, because the jihadi reinforcements are getting closer, with God’s help and power, and your defeat there will put an end to the superiority of the Zionists and Crusaders."
Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's No 2, said that "new events" which were on the way would seal the West’s economic downfall, and urged Muslims to intensify their battle against the USA and the West.
"We have repeatedly warned you and repeatedly offered a truce with you, and so we now have all legal and rational justification to continue to fight you until your power is destroyed or you give in and surrender," al-Zawahiri is reported as saying in the video, in an apparent address to Western leaders.
"You should not concern yourself with the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. They are already doomed."
"Instead you should worry about your presence in two areas. The first is the Gulf, from where you will be expelled, God willing, after your defeat in Iraq, and your economic ruin will be achieved.
"And the second is Israel, because the jihadi reinforcements are getting closer, with God’s help and power, and your defeat there will put an end to the superiority of the Zionists and Crusaders."
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