Nedenstående viser vel hvor klart krigen som foregår nå er knyttet til
Palestina-spørsmålet, uansett hvor mye man i vesten og særlig i USAs ledelse
prøver å late som noe annet (med hederlige unntak som f.eks. Willoch her i
Norge selvsagt - men hvorfor er det alltid kun pensjonerte politikere som
kommer med sannheten?). Alt babbel om at USA nå legger "press på Israel" osv.
er det vanlige propagandaslør.
USA kunne stoppet sine våpenleveranser og pengeoverføringer til støtte for
Israels terror og det ville hatt øyeblikkelig effekt. Men det vil selvsagt
aldri skje under det nåværende amerikanske regimet. Og ingen journalist i den
"fri" presse vil selvsagt noengang spørre hvorfor. I stedet vil man blindt
fortsette med å skape grobunn for stadig økende terror og desperasjon som nå
fra de religiøse galningene rundt bin Laden.
Karsten Johansen
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1648000/1648344.stm
Saturday, 10 November, 2001, 00:06 GMT
Al-Qaeda says its war continues
Ayman al-Zawahri says the jihad continues
The military commander of Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network has pledged to
continue its "holy war" despite US military attempts to destroy it.
Speaking on a videotape broadcast by the Qatari TV channel al-Jazeera, Ayman
al-Zawahri said the Palestinian question was and would remain the greatest
motive for Muslims to attack the United States.
"Let the United States mobilise whatever it can and let it lie as it wishes -
the entire world will know after the coming strikes, God willing, who is the
liar and who is honest"
Ayman al-Zawahri The military commander of al-Qaeda, which Washington suspects
of the 11 September terror attacks on America and other atrocities, said it
was dedicated to driving "the US-Jewish soldier" out of "Palestine, the
Arabian Peninsula and all Muslim countries".
The network sought to "liberate" Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem and Mecca and
Medina in Saudi Arabia, he said.
US campaign ridiculed
Mr al-Zawahri said US might was "nothing compared to that of God" and he
accused America of having killed more than 1,600 civilians in Afghanistan.
"Bush... claims that he destroyed the al-Qaeda organisation and tore the
Taleban lines to pieces," he said.
"But the entire world is ridiculing his lies as it sees his large-scale
military campaign ending up only one month after it started, in the killing of
over 1,600 innocent civilians, elderly, women and children."
Osama Bin Laden has also made statements on al-Jazeera TV
He added that "the entire world [would] know after the coming strikes... who
[was] the liar and who [was] honest".
It was not clear if by "coming strikes" he meant attacks by the United States
or by al-Qaeda.
Dr al-Zawahri appeared to have recorded the tape in the past 24 hours as he
referred a speech by Mr Bush in Atlanta on Thursday.
Fifth videotape
He spoke sitting against a brown background with an AK-47 rifle by his side.
He wore white robes and a turban with a grey outer garment and read from a
statement in his hands.
It was the fifth videotape from al-Qaeda that al-Jazeera has broadcast since
the US-led air strikes on Afghanistan began on 7 October.
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