Thursday, 27 July 2006
Al-Qaeda Vows Global Jihad for Israeli Attacks
Contributed by Bill Faith

Al-Qaeda Vows Global Jihad for Israeli Attacks
James Joyner

Osama bin Laden’s deputy released a video vowing to turn the battles in Lebanon and Gaza into a global jihad.

Al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader warned in a new videotape released Thursday that the terrorist group would not stand idly by while Israeli bombardments “burn our brothers” in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. In the message broadcast by Al-Jazeera television, Ayman al-Zawahri, second in command to Osama bin Laden, said that al-Qaida now saw “all the world as a battlefield open in front of us.”

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Contributed by Bill Faith on July 27, 2006 at 11:40 AM in Bill Faith, Islamism Delenda Est | Permalink

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