Al-Qaida threatens fresh campaign against US
Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network has called for Muslims across the world to join a holy war against America and its allies.
In an address on the Arabic TV station Al-Jazeera, a spokesman for al-Qaida, Sulemain Abu Gheit, threatened a new wave of suicide attacks and said "there are thousands of young people who look forward to death".
Gheit described the US-led attacks on Afghanistan in recent days as a "crusade", echoing George W Bush’s words in the days after the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington.
Al-Qaida’s message said: "America must know that the [Muslim] nation will not keep quiet. The jihad is a duty of every Muslim. God says fight for the sake of God and to uphold the name of God.
"The American interests are everywhere, all over the world. The battle will not leave Islam until America leaves our lands, until it stops supporting Israel.
"The Americans must know that by coming to Afghanistan, they have opened a new page in the battle against the unbelievers. We shall be victorious. America has opened a door that will never be closed.”
