Al-Qaeda video: Al-Qaeda's deputy leader said in a videotape broadcast yesterday that governments could not stop al-Qaeda attacks and that the security of the West depended on respect for Islam and an end to aggression against Muslims.
Ayman al-Zawahri also said in the tape, broadcast by Arab satellite television al-Jazeera, that the "new crusader campaign" would end in defeat as others had in the past.
It was not clear when the tape was made. Zawahri, wearing a white turban and seated with a machine gun next to him, said his comments came three years after the first prisoners were taken from Afghanistan to the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
"If you Western nations believe that these carton governments will protect you from our responses, then you are deluded. Your real security lies in co-operating with the Muslim nation on the basis of respect and ending aggression," said Zawahri