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...agents of infidels," praised the Dec. 6 attack on the U.S. consulate in Jidda and urged Muslims to support the insurgency in Iraq. According to one leading expert, the new tape was part of a change in emphasis in recent communications by the al-Qaeda leader and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri--an effort to speak as much to the Muslim world as to the U.S. and a paving of the theological way for what may be another major attack...
...killed over 300 innocent people throughout Europe and the Middle East over thirty years. Furthermore, the 9/11 Commission has stated that in the late 1990’s al-Qaeda operatives has gone to Iraq and Iraqi personnel had gone to Afghanistan in meetings arranged by Egyptian born Ayman al-Zawahiri, who is second in command of al Qaeda...
Such synchronized attacks are a common al-Qaeda tactic, Israeli intelligence sources point out. And five days before the attacks, al-Jazeera aired a new tape of al-Qaeda's second-in-command, Egyptian native Ayman al-Zawahiri, calling for Muslims to support the Palestinian uprising by attacking Israel and the U.S. Mohammed Salah, an Egyptian expert on Islamic groups, notes that the Sinai operation targeted a number of key interests of al-Qaeda's sworn enemies: the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, Egypt's promotion of a comprehensive Middle East peace settlement and the security of Israel and Egypt, Washington...
...pinpointed by U.S. eavesdroppers, bin Laden relies on a string of runners to carry his notes or recordings from his redoubts. Those audiotapes and videotapes reach news agencies in the Pakistani border city of Peshawar or the capital, Islamabad, strengthening the U.S. view that he's in Pakistan. Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden's second-in-command, also believed to be in the area, released such a tape last week, beseeching young Muslims to rally to his cause "if we are killed or captured...
...campaign at home, culminating in the massacre of 57 tourists at Luxor in 1997 by the Gama'a. But a harsh crackdown saw much of its leadership imprisoned, and from their prison cells they have renounced violence and declared an official cease-fire. The Islamic Jihad group, headed by Ayman Zawahiri, rejected the cease-fire; they had already made common cause with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan and had, to all practical purposes, essentially merged their organizations. That alone would be enough to make Egyptian Islamic Jihad the more likely suspect - which is the same as saying al-Qaeda, given...