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Sunday, March 23, 2008
New Tape From Zawahiri Calls For Attacks on "Jews and America"
22:00CDT - 23 March 2008
New Tape From Zawahiri Calls For Attacks on "Jews and America"
A new audio tape, purportedly from al Qaeda's No. 2 figure, Ayman al-Zawahiri, today called on Jihadist to "...hit the interest of the Jews and the Americans and all those who participated in the aggression against Muslims." The alleged Zawahiri tape follows follows a similar statement last week from Usama bin Laden, who called on Muslims to rise up and "liberate" the Palestinian territory of Gaza from Israeli sanctions and raids against it's Hamas-led government.
This latest recording, posted on websites often used by al Qaeda and other Islamic militant groups, appeared to be produced by al Qaeda's media arm As-Sahab.
Reviewers said that the identity of the speaker on the tape could not
be independently verified, but some experts almost immediately said that
the tape contained the voice of Zawahiri. It is believed that the tape
is currently being analyzed by U.S. military and intelligence agencies
for both authenticity and content.
ERRI counter-terrorism analysts said that it is thought that Bin Laden and Zawahiri are coming under increasing pressure to facilitate some sort of major terror event or else they may suffer a loss of support from hard-core jihadists and the shadowy financiers who provide funding for the global Al-Qaeda insurgency.
Watch Emergency.Blog for more on this developing story....
Edited on: Sunday, March 23, 2008 22:35.33
Categories: Counter-Terrorism, Intelligence