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Video: Al-Qaida behind London blasts
(AP)
Updated: 2005-09-02 06:59
CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida's No. 2 made the terror group's first direct claim of
responsibility for the July 7 bombings in London in a tape broadcast Thursday
that also included a farewell warning to the West from a man identified as one
of the four suicide attackers, AP reported.
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| This is a video grab taken from the pan-Arab televison TV channel
Al Jazeera and aired on Thursday Sept. 1, 2005, shows Al Quaida's No.2,
Ayman al-Zawahri making a statement.
[Reuters] | Speaking English, the bomber
identified as Mohammad Sidique Khan said he had forsaken "everything for what we
believe" and went on to accuse Western civilians of being directly responsible
for the terror attacks that befall them.
"Your democratically elected governments continuously perpetuate injustice
against my people all over the world, and your support of them makes you
directly responsible, just as I am directly responsible for protecting and
avenging my Muslim brothers and sisters," said Khan, wearing a red-and-white
checked keffiyeh and a dark jacket and apparently sitting against a wall lined
with an ornate carpet.
Khan said he was inspired by al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden; al-Qaida No. 2
Ayman al-Zawahri, who also appeared on the tape; and by the leader of al-Qaida
in Iraq, Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi.
"Until we feel security, you will be our targets," he said. "Until you will
stop the bombing, gassing, imprisonment and torture of my people, we will not
stop this fight."
In his portion of the tape, al-Zawahri did not say outright that his terror
group carried out the bombings on the London transport system that killed 52
people and the four attackers. But he said the attacks were a direct response to
Britain's foreign policies and its rejection of a truce that al-Qaida offered
Europe in April 2004.
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