Al Qaeda Issues Message About 9/11 With A Call To Attack America

Al Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri in a 2011 video (Reuters)

Al Qaeda Issues Message About September 11th -- CNN

(CNN) -- Americans commemorated this week the loss of those who died at the hands of al Qaeda terrorists on September 11, 2001. Their leader chimed in a day later with new threats against the United States.

Ayman al-Zawahiri called on his followers in an audio message posted on the Internet on Thursday to "land a large strike on it, even if it takes years of patience for this."

Al-Zawahiri has headed al Qaeda, since a U.S. military operation killed his predecessor and al Qaeda's founder, Osama bin Laden, in May 2011 in Pakistan.

In his message, he claimed victory against the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan. He called on terrorists to continue the battle on American soil.

Al-Zawahiri named the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15 as an example of such an attack.

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Qaeda Leader Urges Muslims to Boycott and Attack U.S. -- New York Times
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Is Al Qaeda Leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri Correct On Egypt?

Photo: Ayman Al-Zawahiri.

Al Qaeda Leader's 'I Told You So' On Egypt -- Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst

(CNN) -- Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian-born leader of al Qaeda, has seen this movie before: An Islamist party does well at the polling booth only to be overthrown by a military coup that then plunges the country into chaos.

This is what happened in Algeria in 1991. Tens of thousands died in the subsequent Algerian civil war that ripped the nation apart during the 1990s.

The lesson that Zawahiri drew from the Algerian war was that participating in democratic elections was strictly for suckers; far better to seize power through violence and then impose Taliban-style sharia law because "the crusaders" and their allies in the Arab world would never allow the emergence of a true Islamist state.

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My Comment: A sobering assessment from Peter Bergen. What's my take .... Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri is relishing the moment, and he is seeing what is happening in Egypt as a golden opportunity to recruit tens of thousands of followers and supporters.

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