Al-Qaeda leader urges Muslims to unite in struggle
April 07, 2013 12:29 PM
Associated Press
CAIRO: Al-Qaeda's leader has urged Muslims in Arab Spring countries to unite
to institute an Islamic state, while warning France that its intervention in
Mali will be bogged down.
"I warn France that it will meet in Mali, with God's permission, the same
fate America met in Iraq and Afghanistan," Ayman Al-Zawahri said in a
103-minute audio message posted on militant websites late Saturday.
In the recording, al-Zawahri urged Muslims to liberate their lands from
oppressive regimes and foreign troops, apply Islamic law, halt the
plundering of Muslim wealth, support rebellious Muslims and oppressed people
worldwide, and establish the Islamic Caliphate, or religious state.
His last audio message, in which he urged Muslims to join Somali militants,
was in November.
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Middle East Online
Al-Zawahiri: Caliph-in-waiting?
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=57964
DUBAI - Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has urged rebels to fight to
establish an Islamic state in Syria, in an online audio message Sunday in
which he also warned France against its military intervention in Mali.
"Let your fight be in the name of Allah and with the aim of establishing
Allah's sharia (law) as the ruling system," he said in his first message
posted on the Internet since last November.
"Do all that you can so that your holy war yields a jihadist Islamic state,"
said Zawahiri, adding that such a state would help to re-establish the
Islamic "caliphate" system of rule.
"The enemy has begun to reel and collapse," he said, referring to forces
loyal to Assad.
Islamist rebel groups such as the Al-Nusra Front, which has links to
Al-Qaeda, have eschewed the main opposition National Coalition, making it
clear their goal is the creation of an Islamic state to replace President
Bashar al-Assad's regime.
Zawahiri's message will not sit easily with Western powers, who have
expressed fears of extremist Islamism playing a growing role in the Syrian
conflict and are reluctant to arm the rebels on the ground.
Assad's regime has long dismissed the rebels as "terror" groups backed by
Western powers and driven by Al-Qaeda-style ideologies.
The United Nations says more than 70,000 people have been killed in Syria's
two-year conflict, which broke out after the army unleashed a brutal
crackdown against dissent, turning the uprising into a bloody insurgency.
Zawahiri in his message also warned France over its military involvement
against Islamists in Mali, saying it will be defeated in the same way,
according to him, the Americans were defeated in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"I warn France that it will face, God willing, the same faced by America in
Iraq and Afghanistan," said the man who took over the leadership of Al-Qaeda
after Osama bin Laden was killed by a US commando in May 2011.
"I call upon our Muslim nation in Mali to hold and be patient, and
hopefully, effect a new defeat to the global crusade," he added.
France sent troops to Mali in January to block an advance on Bamako from the
north by Islamist fighters. But it is preparing to hand over to a
UN-mandated African force of 6,300 in the coming weeks.
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