Al-Qaeda has confirmed the death of Osama bin Laden and said it will soon release an audio tape of their leader, recorded a week before he was killed by US Navy Seals.
The terrorist organisation also vowed to avenge Bin Laden’s death, in a statement posted on jihadist Internet forums on Friday, the United States monitoring group Site Intelligence reported.
“We in al-Qaeda organisation pledge to Allah the almighty and ask his help, support and steadfastness to continue on the path of jihad, the path walked upon by our leaders, and on top of them, Sheikh Osama,” the terror group was quoted as saying.
“We also stress that the blood of the mujahid Sheikh Osama bin Laden, may Allah have mercy upon him, weighs more to us and is more precious to us and to every Muslim than to be wasted in vain,” it said.
“We call upon our Muslim people in Pakistan, on whose land Sheikh Osama was killed, to rise up and revolt to cleanse this shame that has been attached to them by a clique of traitors and thieves who sold everything to the enemies.
“(We call upon them) to rise up strongly and in general to cleanse their country (Pakistan) from the filth of the Americans who spread corruption in it,” said the statement.
The statement came after US President Barack Obama said that American commandos killed Bin Laden in the early hours of Monday morning in a covert operation in the Pakistani garrison town of Abbottabad. — AFP