Al-Zawahiri urges Muslims to unite.
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By Raif Karerat
In an audio recording released late Sunday night, Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri urged 9/11-style attacks against the United States and praised a recent spate of stabbing attacks by Palestinians against Israelis.
Al-Zawahiri urged Muslims to unite, saying they must establish a Caliphate and an Islamic state in Egypt and the Levant, and that they must “liberate Palestine.” Muslims today face “American-European-Russian-Shiite-Alawite aggression,” he said, before calling on jihadist organizations worldwide to stop infighting.
“Those who support Israel should pay in their blood and economy the price for supporting the crimes of Israel against Islam and Muslims,” al-Zawahiri says on the recording, titled “We Shall Unite To Liberate Jerusalem.”
Al-Zawahiri has released a string of audio statements in recent months following protracted radio silence.
In August, he pledged allegiance to the new Taliban leader, Mullah Akhtar, and later continued with a series of audio recordings blaming ISIS leader Abu Baker al-Baghdadi for creating civil war within Islam.
“My mujahideen brothers in all places and of all groups … we face aggression from America, Europe, and Russia … so it’s up to us to stand in one line, from East Turkestan to Morocco, against the satanic alliance that attacks Islam, its nation and its house,” he says in the audio.
It was unclear when or where exactly the audio was recorded but the footage surfaced on cyberspace through usual jihadist channels on Nov. 1. According to the International Business Times, Zawahiri’s tone indicates the remarks were made in the backdrop of Russia beginning airstrikes in Syria against Islamist targets.