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Zawahri Says Bin Laden in
Good Health
Reuters
Thursday, April 3, 2008
DUBAI—Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was well
and reports speculating about his sickness were false, his deputy
Ayman al-Zawahri said in a recording on Wednesday.
"Sheikh Osama bin Laden is in good health," Zawahri,
who is also a doctor, said in response to questions compiled by
Islamist Web sites. "The ill-intentioned always try to circulate
false reports about him being sick."
Zawahri, who, like Saudi-born bin Laden is believed to be hiding
in Afghanistan or Pakistan, also denounced the United Nations
and vowed to attack Jews both within and outside Israel.
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"The United Nations is an enemy of Islam and Muslims,"
he said. "It has legalized the creation of the state of Israel
and its seizure of Muslims' land ... it has legalized the crusader
presence in Afghanistan ... and Iraq," he said in a 104-minute
audio recording 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 2003 bombing of a U.N. building
in Baghdad which killed 22.
Zawahri 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."
Al Qaeda will turn to fight Israel after "winning"
the war in Iraq against U.S.-led and government forces, he said,
adding that the United states had begun to collapse.
"The myth of unipolar world is over. The (September 11,
2001) strikes on New York and Washington are identifying marks
of this collapse, but empires do not collapse in a minute and
could take decades. The collapse of the Soviet Union is the closest
example."
The Egyptian militant also reiterated al Qaeda calls to Muslims
to topple Western-allied governments and to attack Western and
Israeli interests in Muslim countries.
"We call the nation in Egypt and other parts to hit crusader
and Jewish interests wherever they are to force the invaders to
leave Muslim land, and to stop supporting corrupt regimes."
"Severity of repression might delay change but it cannot
stop it... what matters is to prepare for change, being patient,
willingness to make sacrifice and seizing opportunities."
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