ISI Chief Urges Exiled Palestinians To Attack U.S., Israeli Interests

The leader of al Qaeda-led "Islamic State of Iraq" (ISI) called on called on Palestinian refugees living in exile to wage attacks on Israeli and U.S. interests wherever they are around the world.
In an audio tape posted on the Internet, Abu Omar al Baghdadi also slammed Arab rulers, especially Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, for failing Palestinians killed under Israeli fire in Gaza. Al Baghdadi urged people to rebel and overthrow the "traitor" rulers and "destroy their thrones."
The ISI leader outlined a plan of five points to deal with the current crisis, which consists of of using the current anger amongst people in neighboring countries to break through the Gaza border and seize weapons from border guards and other military camps located around the border area to pass them on to the militants in Gaza.
Al Baghdadi also called on Palestinian factions to unite and on Palestinian organizations to release their weapons to the militants to use them for real instead of sporting them in the refugee camps' military parades.
From his side, al Baghdadi pledged to intensify the attacks against American forces in Iraq as a gesture of support to Palestinians. He reassured them, as well as their fellow Iraqi people, that victory was near.
Al Baghdadi's call for attacks on Israeli and American interests comes days after a similar call launched by al Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al Zawahiri. In his statement last Tuesday, al Zawahiri had blamed the Gaza war on President-elect Barak Obama and urged attacks on Israeli and U.S. interests around the world.