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Bin Laden urges Pakistanis to rebel
(Agencies)
Updated: 2007-09-20 22:56
CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden is calling on Pakistanis to
rebel against President Pervez Musharraf in a new audiotape.
An undated file photo of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. [File]
The announcement of the upcoming message came as al-Qaida released a new
video in which bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, boasted that the
United States was being defeated in Afghanistan, Iraq and other fronts.
Speakers in the video promised more fighting in Afghanistan, North Africa
and Sudan's Darfur region.
The messages are part of a stepped-up propaganda campaign by al-Qaida
around the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks against the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon. Earlier this month, bin Laden released two
messages - including his first new appearance in a video in nearly three
years.
A banner posted on an Islamic militant Web site on Thursday advertised
that another message would be released, though it did not say whether bin
Laden would appear in video or speak in an audiotape.
"Soon, God willing: 'Come to Jihad (holy war)', from sheik Osama bin
Laden, God protect him" the banner read.
"Urgent, al-Qaida declares war on the tyrant Pervez Musharraf and his
apostate army, in the words of Osama bin Laden," it read.
Such advertisements usually precede the release of the video by one to
three days, according to IntelCenter, a US counterterrorism group that
monitors militant messages.
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