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WORLD / Middle East
Bin Laden to release another message
(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-09-20 16:28
CAIRO - Osama bin Laden will release a new message soon declaring war on
Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, al-Qaida announced Thursday.
A frame grab of a video released on September 2, 2006 shows Al Qaeda's
second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri speaking. Zawahri called on Muslims to
fight the United States and its allies around the world in a new video
aired on Thursday. [Reuters]?
The announcement of the upcoming message came as al-Qaida released a new
video in which bin Laden's deputy boasted that the United States was
being defeated in Afghanistan, Iraq and other fronts.
Speakers in the video promised more fighting in Afghanistan, North Africa
and Sudan's Darfur region.
The messages are part of a stepped-up propaganda campaign by al-Qaida
around the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks against the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Earlier this month, bin Laden released two messages?-- including his
first new appearance in a video in nearly three years.
A banner posted on an Islamic militant website Thursday advertised that
another message would be released, though it did not say whether bin
Laden would appear in video or speak in an audiotape.
"Soon, God willing: 'Come to Jihad (holy war)', from sheik Osama bin
Laden, God protect him" the banner read.
"Urgent, al-Qaida declares war on the tyrant Pervez Musharraf and his
apostate army, in the words of Osama bin Laden," it read.
Such advertisements usually precede the release of the video by one to
three days, according to IntelCenter, a US counterterrorism group that
monitors militant videos.
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