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Al Qaeda Calls for Pakistanis to War on Their President, Total Muslim War on U.S.

by PEP | September 20, 2007 at 06:14 am

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Ayman al-Zawahri,al-Qaeda's second-in-command, has called on Muslims to
fight the United States and its allies around the world.

"Stand oh nation of Islam under the victorious banner of the Prophet ... and campaign against the Crusader banner of [President George] Bush," al-Zawahri
said in a new video aired on Thursday.

In a new audiotape released Thursday, al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden calls on Pakistanis to rebel against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf.

The message — details of which were not immediately available — came as al-Qaida released a new video in which bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, 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.