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UN force 'enemy of Islam'
11/09/2006 19:18 - (SA)
Dubai - Al-Qaeda's deputy leader Ayman
al-Zawahri has condemned United Nations forces in Lebanon as
"enemies of Islam", the first implicit threat against the
peacekeeping detachment.
Zawahri, speaking in a video tape aired on Arabic Al Jazeera
television on Monday, also blasted a UN resolution that
governs a ceasefire that ended 34-days of fighting between
Israel and Hezbollah.
"The biggest problem with resolution 1701 and similar
resolutions designed to humiliate Muslims is...its declaration
of the existence of the Jewish state," Zawahri said in the
video, aired on the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States.
"(The resolution) also isolates the mujahideen in Palestine
from the Muslims in Lebanon by the presence of international
forces that are the enemies of Islam."
The UN force - known as Unifil II - is being deployed in
the south of Lebanon after the August 14 truce. It will contain
troops from Muslim as well as Western countries.
Israel's war on Lebanon was sparked by Hezbollah's abduction
of two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid in July.
The UN security council resolution that led to the truce
called for 15 000 UN troops to join a similar number of
Lebanese army troops deploying in the south of the country.
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