Al Qaeda No. 2 Vows More Attacks On West

New Audiotape Has Ayman Al-Zawahiri's Latest Answers To Questions About Jihad

(CBS/AP)  Osama bin Laden's chief deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri warned Tuesday that the terror group still has plans to target Western countries involved in the Iraq war as he released a second audiotape answering questions posed by followers.

The comments by al Qaeda's No. 2 leader, in a lengthy audiotape posted on an Islamic web site, could not be immediately confirmed as authentic. But the voice sounded like past audiotapes from the terror leader.

Asked by one follower if the terror group still had plans to attack Western countries that participated in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and subsequent war, al-Zawahiri said: "My answer is, yes. We believe that anybody who participated in the aggression against Muslims has to be deterred."

CBS News terrorism consultant Hoda Osman, said al-Zawahiri repeatedly stated there were no women in al Qaeda's ranks. He said women help by enduring the hardships associated with militancy well as by raising children.

But, said Osman, the al Qaeda deputy seemed to contradict himself when he responded to a woman asking if she should participate in jihad in North Africa. He told her that, as an Islamic obligation, jihad should include everybody, but that because she in particular has nobody to whom she can entrust her children, she should not join.

The tape Tuesday was the second time that al-Zawahri has answered the more than 900 questions submitted on extremist Internet sites by al Qaeda supporters, critics and journalists in December.

In a first response earlier this month, al-Zawahiri rejected the criticism of attacks by the terror network's followers, which have killed thousands, and maintained that the group does not kill innocent people.

Al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the Sept. 11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York and Washington in 2001, while its affiliates in Iraq, Afghanistan and Algeria regularly set off bombs in crowded urban areas that have taken thousands of lives.

In another answer Tuesday, al-Zawahiri said it was against Islamic religious law for any Muslim to live permanently in a Western country because in doing so they would "have permanent stay there under the laws of the infidels."

Osman said four questions were posed by people claiming to live in the West, some of whom asked whether they should travel to Afghanistan or Iraq. Osman said a number of people asked questions in English, which al-Zawahiri said he translated before answering.

Osama bin Laden's deputy also used his answer session to appeal for funding, said Osman. "Money is the foundation of jihad," he repeated. "I advise every Mujahed who heads to the fields of jihad, to collect as much money as he can to bring to the mujahideen."

Al-Zawahiri also indicated jihad comes above all else, including marriage. Osman said he advised a man asking if he should travel for jihad, even though he had promised to marry a girl, that there was nothing more important than jihad because it was an "obligation".

Al Qaeda's media arm, Al-Sahab, announced in December that al-Zawahri would take questions from the public posted on Islamic militant Web sites and would respond "as soon as possible."

Queries were submitted on the main Islamist Web site until the cutoff date of Jan. 16. After the deadline, the questions disappeared from the site.

According to the questions, self-proclaimed al Qaeda supporters appeared to be as much in the dark about the terror network's operations and intentions as Western analysts and intelligence agencies.

The questioners appeared uncertain whether al Qaeda's central leadership directly controls the multiple, small militant groups around the Middle East that work in its name, or whether those groups operate on their own.

Some asked if al Qaeda had a long-term strategy, while others wanted advice about conducting Islamic holy war.

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landon816

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you have too much time on your hands..at 31, you need a real job

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Posted by Prinzowhales at 01:58 PM : Apr 23, 2008
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since you are not transmitting this posts from some hidden paramilitary location somewhere in montana, armed to the teeth and ready from this ''conspiracy'' to occur..THEN YOU ARE JUST like a pimply little teenage simpleton that curious about the NWO with too much time on your hands (try ************ instead). who is a fearmonger now?

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and then what?? you ranting about this allegations of a wide spread conspiracy is going to help??

you think its happening..THEN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT..

[mattalankane]

WHEN OBAMA IS ELECTED HE WILL BE ABLE TO REASON WITH THESE GENTLEMEN...HE WILL OFFER SOME CHANGE ALONG WITH SOME HOPE AND IF THAT''S NOT ENOUGH...THE AUDACITY OF HOPE AND CHANGE COMBINED WILL BRING THEM AROUND.

[mattalankane]

WHEN OBAMA IS ELECTED HE WILL BE ABLE TO REASON WITH THESE GENTLEMEN...HE WILL OFFER SOME CHANGE ALONG WITH SOME HOPE AND IF THAT''S NOT ENOUGH...THE AUDACITY OF HOPE AND CHANGE COMBINED WILL BRING THEM AROUND.

[prinzowhales]

al Zawahiri is the creation of our intelligence services...his brother operates in Kosovo under the protection of the US military with his drug dealing buddies in the KLA. Rest assured, if there is an attack on the West, it will be like 9-11, London and Madrid and the WTC attack in 1993...it will be an operation of the oligarchy and its henchmen in governments around the world.

[grim56z]

Al Qada and Taliban hide like scared little girls. They should dress their women in military uniform with AKs. That is the only real Army that Zawahiri has left.

[landon816]

The Bin Laden''s and the Bushes are one big happy family!Unbelieveable! "al-Qaeda" Dismisses Conspiracy Theories, Defends Israel, Attacks Iran and Hizbollah!
Every time a member of the US or Israeli government expounded on the "Muslim terror threat to freedom and democracy everywhere", soon afterwards "al-Qaeda" obligingly popped up with a new video or statement in which they threatened freedom and democracy. Now, you may be wondering why a "worldwide Islamic terror group" is defending Israel against "9/11 conspiracy theories" and threatening another Muslim nation. You may also be thinking that al-Zawahiri''s words closely resemble the Bush government''s demand that we should "never entertain outlandish conspiracy theories about the 9/11 attacks". You will however remain in your state of bewilderment up until the point that you make the leap of logic to the obvious conclusion: that "al-Qaeda" is actually a fully controlled US/Israeli government asset and is dragged out every so often to provide the "reality" of "Islamic terrorism".

[beehive21-2009]

The funky little ode man must be hung,he ''s a nasty big mouthed, robot programmer, who likes to kill women and children, even his own.All, in the name of a fairy tale.
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[prinzowhales]

And, when Israel did not exist...there were no children of Israel?

[factsearcher]

As long as there are no negotiations... there''s no Palestine

[prinzowhales]

Is there such a thing as the United Kingdom?...How about the Commonwealth of Independent States?...South Africa? Togo?...Chad?...Brazil?

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The article also discusses the long history of Palestine and Palestinians.
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What Palestine???
Not such thing!

[prinzowhales]

It is unimportant what the land called Palestine is called or the people who have dwelled there since time immemorial...the people whose villages and cemetaries were erased from the face of the land by the Zionist invaders....They existed...They exist!

A part of the land was wrongly given to the Zionists by the UN...so be it...But now, those invaders took far more land than was given them by the UN...That is the problem...But the Zionist still want more...they refuse to define the boundaries of Israel and refuse all opportunities of peace so that they can seize still more land from the Arabs who live there and call themselves Palestinians...as Arabs call themselves Iraqis who live there.

The evidence of an Egyptian steele tells us that in 1200 BCE the tribe of Israel was nothing more than a nomad tribe that got its arse kicked along with several cities in Canaan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine

The article also discusses the long history of Palestine and Palestinians.

[neoconrcrazy]

here a related story on this site;

"The FBI arrested a New Jersey man for disclosing classified defense information to Israel. Ben-Ami Kadish, who is a U.S. citizen, worked as a mechanical engineer at the Army''s Armament Research center in Dover, NJ. The case against Kadish has ties to Jonathan Pollard, an American who spied for Israel in the early 1980s and who is currently serving a life sentence in U.S. prison"

good to know we share "values" with israel, such a great ally....bollicks

[guadalcanal3]

dragonwagon5...This is a global battle(9/11,Madrid,London,Indonesia etc)....We are fighting Al Qaeda everywhere...but Iraq is the one they really want to win bad...Oh yeah...and one more thing...Al Qaeda struck 1''st...remember?...You will also notice that the war has shifted to ''over there'' and ''not here''...That''s because they hit America.

[bm6005]

It will be glorious!
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One can only hope!!

[beehive21-2009]

Why in the World ,would anybody listen and kill themselves for this warn out human who is a murder.Oh,brainwashing ,huh, so if you catch yourselves listening to the old mans BS , you know your a brainwashed robot.Since birth you have been programmed into believing your better than the rest of the human race ,cause a dirty old man told you so,you are the chosen ,go kill so you can get lots of hos

I despise ALL organized religion, but Islam has been a murderous tirade since the day it was invented by an angry homosexual.

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Posted by bm6005 at 07:24 PM : Apr 22, 2008

Outstanding! Just let me now where and when and I''ll be standing right next to you brother.

It will be glorious!