Al-Qa'ida has warned that Britain can expect more terrorist attacks because of the foreign policies pursued by Tony Blair.
Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's deputy, insisted that the London suicide bombings were the direct result of the Prime Minister's decision to join the US-led invasion of Iraq. The statement, in a videotape broadcast by the Arab satellite channel al-Jazeera, was the first message from al-Qa'ida since the London blasts.
The Statement:
As for the English, I say to them: Blair has brought destruction upon you, to the centre of London, and he will have more of it, Allah willing.
Oh the peoples of the Crusader coalition, we have offered you, at least, to stop your aggression against the Muslims ... The lion of Islam, the mujaheed sheikh Osama bin Laden, may Allah protect him, has offered you a truce, so you will leave the lands of Islam. Did sheikh Osama bin Laden not tell you that you could not dream of security before we live it as a reality in Palestine and before all the infidel armies leave the land of Muhammad?
But you have made rivers of blood in our countries, so we blew up volcanoes of rage in your countries. Our message to you is clear: You will not be saved unless you withdraw from our land, stop stealing our oil ... and cease your support of the corrupt (Arab) rulers.
Oh Americans, what you have seen in New York and Washington, and the casualties you witness in Afghanistan and in Iraq ... are nothing but the casualties of the initial clashes. If you continue the same policy of aggression against Muslims, you will see, Allah willing, horrors that will make you forget what you saw in Afghanistan... I mean, in Vietnam.
A fact that [George] Bush, [Condoleezza] Rice and [Donald] Rumsfeld conceal from you is that there is no way out of Iraq other than immediate withdrawal, and that any delay in making this decision means nothing but more dead ... If you don't leave today, you will definitely leave tomorrow, but with tens of thousands of dead ...
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