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Zawahiri calls on Pakistanis to fight Musharraf April 29, 2006 AFP, Al-Qaeda kept up its media offensive on Saturday as its number two Ayman al-Zawahiri called on the people and army of Pakistan to fight the regime of President Pervez Musharraf. "I call on the people of Pakistan to work to remove this traitor from power...and I call on every officer and soldier in the Pakistani army to disobey their commanders' orders to kill Muslims in Pakistan and Afghanistan," he said in a video released on a jihadist website. In the third message from the organisation in a week Zawahiri said that "Musharraf was prepared to flee abroad where he had bank accounts when the popular revolution breaks out." According to the video the "message to the people of Pakistan" was recorded after the third anniversary of the fall of the regime of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein on April 9, 2003. It followed an audiotape broadcast on Al-Jazeera television last Sunday in which Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden called on Muslim fighters to go to Sudan to wage war against "crusader thieves" and slammed the international isolation of the Hamas-led Palestinian government. The tape was the first from bin Laden since January 19. Then two days later Al-Qaeda's Iraq frontman Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who
has a 25-million-dollar US bounty on his head, expressed new defiance toward
Washington and Iraq's new leaders in his first reported public appearance
since he emerged as one of the world's most wanted militants. |
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