The deadly September 11 terror attacks were ”only a start” in the fight against the United States, warned the representative for chief terror suspect Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network in a report on Sunday.
”September’s attacks are only a start,” Suleiman Abu Ghaith said in an article on the Islamic website close to al-Qaida, www.alneda.com, that was carried by Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper.
The alneda.com site was inaccessible on Sunday.
Abu Ghaith, who was stripped of his Kuwaiti nationality last October over links to the suicide hijackings, again claimed responsibility for the outrages, putting al-Qaida’s anti-American ethos down to ”US scheming in regions of the Islamic world”.
”In view of the number of Muslims killed by Americans directly, indirectly or with their support, we are only at the start of the road in the anti-American struggle,” he reportedly said.
Abu Ghaith, who taught Islamic studies in Kuwait until June
2001, has frequently appeared on Qatar’s Al-Jazeera satellite channel since the United States launched its war on terror in Afghanistan.
His most recent appearance was April when he said the September 11 suicide hijackers had been driven by ”Islamic” considerations.
The al-Qaida representative also appeared in a tape apparently recorded in December and aired in April by Saudi-owned MBC television to claim responsibility for the attacks on New York and Washington.
On June 2 he was quoted by the Arabic daily Al-Hayat as saying that al-Qaida will strike again against the United States and with at least the same force as on September 11. – Sapa-AFP