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Zawahiri says U.N. is enemy and vows attacks on Jews

Wed Apr 2, 2008, 21:36 PM BST

Zawahiri says U.N. is enemy and vows attacks on Jews

DUBAI, U.A.E.: Al Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri described the United Nations as an enemy to Muslims and vowed attacks on Jews both inside and outside Israel in a statement posted on the Internet on Wednesday. "The United Nations is an enemy of Islam and Muslims," he said in remarks made in response to questions posted on the Internet.

He defended attacks on U.N. offices in an apparent reference to twin bomb attacks on U.N. buildings in Algiers which killed 41 people in December and the bombing of a U.N. building in Baghdad in 2003 which killed 22.

Zawahiri also called for attacks on Jews. "We promise our Muslim brothers that we will do our utmost to strike Jews in Israel and abroad with help and guidance from God..."

-- Source: http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=
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April 02, 2008

Al-Qaida's Zawahri says militant organization doesn't kill innocents, threatens Egypt

The Associated Press

CAIRO, EGYPT: Al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahiri responded to criticism Wednesday about the organization's notoriously brutal tactics, maintaining that it does not kill innocents, in hour-and-a half-long audio response to questions submitted to the movement on extremist Web sites.

The audio message, which was accompanied by a 46-page English transcript, was the first installment of answers to a raft of online questions and focused mainly on future al-Qaida efforts elsewhere in the region, particularly Egypt.

"We haven't killed the innocents, not in Baghdad nor in Morocco, nor in Algeria, nor anywhere else," he said according to the English transcript which, like the audio message, appeared on Web sites linked to the group.

The answer was in response to the question "excuse me, Mr. Zawahiri, but who is it who is killing with Your Excellency's blessing the innocents in Baghdad, Morocco and Algeria?"

-- Source/continues: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/02/africa/
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