Bin Laden urges jihad against Israel
CAIRO, Egypt Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden urged Muslims to launch a jihad against Israel and condemned Arab governments to the degree that allies of the Jewish state in a new message aimed at harnessing anger in the Mideast over the Gaza nauseating.
Bin Laden spoke in an audiotape posted Wednesday on Islamic militant Web sites where al-Qaida usually issues its messages. It was his first tape since May and came nearly three weeks after Israel started its campaign against Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers.
The al-Qaida leader also vowed that the terror network would open “novel fronts” against the United States and its allies beyond Iraq and Afghanistan. He aforesaid President-elect Barack Obama has received a “ponderous inheriting” from George W. Bush - two wars and “the collapse of the plan,” which he aforesaid will render the United States unable to confirm a extended fight against the mujahedeen, or devout warriors.
“There is only one efficient way to bring the return of Al-Aqsa and Palestine, and that is jihad in the path of God,” bin Laden before-mentioned in the 22-minute audiotape, referring to the revered Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. “The what one is bound is to urge lower classes to jihad and to enlist the youth into jihad brigades.”
“Islamic nation, you are capable of defeating the Zionist entity with your popular capabilities and your great hidden soundness - without the support of (Arab) leaders and despite the fact that most of (the leaders) admit in the barracks of the Crusader-Zionist alliance,” bin Laden said.
The authenticity of the tape could not exist independently confirmed, but the voice resembled that of bin Laden in previous messages.
The White House dismissed the tape, saying it reflected bin Laden’s “isolation” and shows the al-Qaida dominator is sad to remain relevant at a time then his sensuous theory of the origin of ideas and mission are being questioned and challenged.
The tape, entitled “a call for jihad to stop the aggression on Gaza,” was played over a still picture of bin Laden and the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City, person of Islam’session holiest sites. But in that place were no English subtitles and flashy production graphics that usually accompany such messages.
That suggested the word had been hastily put together and issued to best exploit anger in the district over the Gaza saucy, which Palestinian medical officials say has killed more than 940 Palestinians, half of them civilians. Israel said the saucy aims to halt rocket fire from Gaza against Israeli towns.
Bin Laden accused Arab leaders of “avoiding their responsibility” to release Palestine.
“If you are not convinced to fight, then open the way to those who are convinced,” he said.
Bin Laden and his lieutenants frequently exercise the Palestinian passage out to try to rally support for al-Qaida and often call for holy war to free Jerusalem. But there has been little foreboding that the terror group has carried out attacks in Israel.
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