Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden vowed to retaliate against Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf for the killing of a rebel cleric, in an audiotape posted on the Internet.
Maulana Abdul Rashid Ghazi and more than 100 of his followers were killed in an assault on the Lal Masjid mosque and school complex in Islamabad.
Bin Laden’s audiotape, issued by al Qaeda’s media arm As-Sahab, was part of a 23-minute video which carried an English translation of his remarks and showed old footage of him and other figures of his movement.
The tape could not be authenticated, but it was posted on main Islamist Web sites.
“We in the al Qaeda organisation call on Allah to witness that we will retaliate for the blood of Maulana Abdul Rashid Ghazi and those with him against Musharraf and those who help him, and for all the pure and innocent blood foremost of which is the blood of the champions of Islam in Waziristan - both North and South - among them the two noble leaders, Nek Muhammad and Abdullah Mahsud. May Allah have mercy on them all.”
“So Pervez, his ministers, his soldiers and those who help him are all accomplices in the spilling of blood of those Muslims who have been killed. He who helps him knowingly and willingly is an infidel like him, and as for he who helps him knowingly and under compulsion, his compulsion isn’t legally valid.”
“It is obligatory for Muslims in Pakistan to carry out Jihad and fight to remove Pervez, his government, his army and those who help him.”
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