http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45606
Al-Qaida leader
warns of attacks
Zawahiri: 'The truth that has been kept
from you by Bush, Rice and Rumsfeld'
Posted: August 4, 2005
12:12 p.m. Eastern
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
In a videotape shown on the Arabic al-Jazeera satellite channel, Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman
al-Zawahiri, warned of further terrorist strikes unless Britain and the United States withdraw
troops from Iraq.
The al-Qaida leader blamed British Prime Minister Tony Blair for the bombings in London July 7,
which killed 52 people, and the attempted July 21 attacks.
"Blair has brought to you destruction in central London, and he will bring more of that, God
willing," said al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian doctor who joined forces with bin Laden in Afghanistan in
the late 1990s.
"As to the nations of the crusader alliance, we have offered you a truce if you leave the land of
Islam."
Al-Zawahiri added, "Hasn't Sheik Osama bin Laden told you that you will not dream of security before
there is security in Palestine and before all the infidel armies withdraw from the land of
Muhammad?"
Blair's Downing Street office declined to comment on the broadcast.
"Our message is clear," the al-Qaida leader continued, "You will not be safe until you withdraw from
our land, stop stealing our oil and wealth and stop supporting the corrupt rulers."
The tape was being examined to determine its authenticity, but officials say every previous
al-Zawahiri tape has been real, according to Fox News.
A tape broadcast by al-Jazeera in June showed al-Zawahiri declaring armed jihad as the only way to
bring reform to the Arab world.
In the latest tape, he warned the United States of significantly more casualties.
"As for you, the Americans, what you have seen in New York and Washington, what losses that you see
in Afghanistan and Iraq, despite the media blackout, is merely the losses of the initial clashes,"
he said. "If you go on with the same policy of aggression against Muslims, you will see, with God's
will, what will make you forget the horrible things in Vietnam and Afghanistan."
Addressing the American populace, he said, "The truth that has been kept from you by [President]
Bush, [Secretary of State Condoleezza] Rice and [Defense Secretary Donald H.] Rumsfeld is that there
is no way out of Iraq without immediate withdrawal, and any delay on this means only more dead, more
losses.
"If you don't leave today, certainly you will leave tomorrow, and after tens of thousands of dead,
and double that figure in disabled and wounded."
He also had a warning for the Western nations in the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq.
"As to the nations of the crusader alliance, we have offered you a truce if you leave the land of
Islam. ... Instead [of accepting the truce], you spilled blood like rivers in our countries and we
exploded the volcanoes of wrath in your countries."
Barry
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