Osama 'ordered Israeli attack'
2006-01-09 08:27
Paris - Al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, said in an audio tape put onto the internet on Sunday that rockets had been fired at Israel from Lebanon last month "on the instructions" of the network's overall chief Osama bin Laden.
"The rocket firing at the ancestors of monkeys and pigs from the south of Lebanon was only the start of a blessed in-depth strike against the Zionist enemy (...).
"All that was on the instructions of the sheikh of the mujahedeen, Osama bin laden, may God preserve him," said the voice attributed to the Jordanian extremist.
His group, the Organisation of al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, had claimed responsibility for the rockets in an online statement on December 29.
"This commendable feat came in application by the mujahedeen of the oath by fighter sheikh Osama bin Laden, emir of the al-Qaeda network, may God preserve him," added the recording referring to repeated statements by Bin Laden that the Israelis should not enjoy security as long as Muslims were not safe.
- AFP