Osama bin Laden called for a long war against ”infidels” and warned Muslims that alliances with Christians and Jews would turn them into apostates.
Al-Qaeda’s North Africa wing has called for a holy war in Mauritania to establish Islamic rule after a military junta toppled the country’s president.
A brother of a slain Taliban leader said al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was alive and well and that he had received a letter of condolence from him after his brother was killed in May. ”He is alive, active and well,” Haji Mansour Dadullah, a Taliban militant leader, said of Bin Laden.
The United States will face worse attacks than those on September 11 2001 if it does not heed al-Qaeda demands effectively allowing the group control over Muslim countries, a US Islamist militant said on Tuesday. Adam Gadahn, a California-born convert to Islam, appeared in a video posted on the internet.