Posted on Sat, Dec. 30, 2006
Al-Qaida's No. 2 decries moderate ArabsOMAR SINAN
Associated Press
CAIRO, Egypt - The deputy leader of al-Qaida accused moderate Arab leaders
of being traitors for cooperating with the United States and its allies in a
taped message posted on militant Web sites Saturday.
Ayman al-Zawahri lashed out at Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and his
Fatah movement, saying "they cannot be brothers to the Muslims, but they
are their enemies."
-snip-In his message, Osama bin Laden's deputy also denounced other Arab leaders
including U.S. ally Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
"I greet my brothers inside the prisons of Mubarak, the traitor," he said in an
apparent in reference to recent arrests and detentions of several members
of Egypt's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.
Al-Zawahri had harsh words for Saudi Arabia, charging the kingdom's government
orders its citizens "to serve the crusader's forces that bomb Muslims in
Afghanistan and Iraq, and that orders them to recognize Israel and give away
Palestine."
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