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Zawahri criticises Pakistani govt in al Qaeda tape

Zawahri released an audio recording accusing the Pakistani government of responding too slowly to the floods.

Reuters September 15, 2010

DUBAI: Al Qaeda's number two Ayman al-Zawahri released an audio recording on Wednesday accusing the Pakistani government of responding too slowly to severe flooding in the country and calling on Pakistanis to revolt.

Zawahri spoke in a 44-minute recording which appeared to mark the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.

"The primary concern of the ruling class in the government and army of Pakistan is filling their domestic and foreign bank accounts with dollars, and as far as they are concerned, Pakistan and its people can go to hell," he said.

Entitled “A Victorious Ummah, A Broken Crusade: Nine Years After the Start of the Crusader Campaign”, the recording was posted on a websites often used by al Qaeda.

Zawahri called on Pakistanis and Turkish Muslims to rise up against their government because of their involvement in Afghanistan.

“...The Muslim Turkish people must confront the behaviour of their government, which is participating in the Muslim-killing campaign in Afghanistan,” he said. “The same holds true for the government of Pakistan.”

Last year, al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden released an audio tape marking the anniversary of the September 11 attacks, but no such message has appeared from him so far this year.

COMMENTS (14)

mussarat | 14 years ago | Reply Whole world came to help flood affected people in Pakistan including USA His excellency Zawahiri is criticising Pakistani government for poor response. Why didn't he or his men came to rescue MUSLIM brothers in Pakistan ? Hussain Washington DC

trends@Man | 14 years ago | Reply Nice comments NAZ EBR

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Naz Ebr | 14 years ago | Reply "Islam ka hero number one.......Mera sher Osama bin Ladin" This was on the tongue of every Pakistani whether the middle class or the lower, when Afghanistan was starting to bleed. Now, when Pakistan's being bitten by it's own tamed snakes.....the Pakistanis seem to be trying to change its stance and mind and calling Alzwahiri (their ex-hero) as hypocrite and asking him to mind his own business. Too late, isn't it?

Sadeeq Baloch | 14 years ago | Reply Mr Zawari better tell his own Egyptians to rise against their government where a MUMMY is ruling since upteen years. It is his country which has put a blockade on the people of Ghaza. He better move to his country and do some good work for his people. As a matter of fact, these people have killed more Muslims than non muslims and have created reason for others to kill Muslims. His misplaced expectations from Pakistanies and Turkish people are worthless.

AAJ | 14 years ago | Reply Let's rely on al-Qaeda's fleet of boats and helicopter then! Very hypocritical of Zawahiri

Talha | 14 years ago | Reply How absurd, these people kill innocents merciless all over the nation and he is giving advice. Pathetic.

asma@london | 14 years ago | Reply Leave us alone

HST | 14 years ago | Reply i don't get it? if he kills Muslims than its fine? its said in Quran "Killing of an innocent human being is like as if you have killed the whole of humanity and saving a human beings life is like as if you have saved the life of whole of humanity" This guy is nothing but a mental case. and he defiantly not a Muslim. Either he is tremendously misinformed or trying to pursue a Anti Muslim agenda, by calling the Turkish to rise up against their Regime. As the Turkish People elected their government with vast majority which is a pro Islamic Regime. its people and its government are perfectly in harmony with one another....and he is calling them to rise up against it because he thinks they are killings Muslims in Afghanistan? what the people their have been doing before the Americans and NATO got stationed their? if anyone is responsible for their arrival in Afghanistan its his organization and people who are responsible for 9/11 which has caused more harm to Muslims than to this despicable gutless piece of Trash..

rehan saeed | 14 years ago | Reply Thank you So much for the concern you have for the Pakistani people, we already know how compassionate all you Mullahs are, turning our country into your battlefield(what did you expect when you crashed those planes? That America would'nt respond??), Thankyou for unleashing suicide bombers across the country, Thankyou for making thousands orphans and widows, Thankyou for radicalizing and traumatizing an entire generation of Pakistani's, Thankyou for Killing our Soldiers in our own country, Thankyou for causing us to have have to engage in multiple wars on our own land, forcing us to kill our own people, Thankyou for making us feel insecure within our own homes, Thankyou for causing us to become proxies of foreign powers(the government doesn't have a choice in the matter). Thankyou So So much for all these 'wonderful things' You've done 'For'(to) us. May Allah give you all the 'rewards' that you and your friends deserve.

Yasser | 14 years ago | Reply He has not said anything wrong but still Zahwari we already have a LOT of mullah in Pakistan with no real application, hence thanks but no Thanks.

asad | 14 years ago | Reply no need to say any thing about us! about muslim ummah wat u have given to us other then miseries and bombing, u and America r the two sides of a same coin, may ALLAH help muslims to fight against both of u.

SZ | 14 years ago | Reply Exactly, who is he to comment? they should better mind their own business!

ArifQ | 14 years ago | Reply Mr Zawahiri is requested to mind his business, he should go back to Egypt and stop bleeding pakistan, enough is enough.

Mohammed Abbasi | 14 years ago | Reply I think we need to be careful about giving attention to anything and everything Osama Bin Laden or Zawahiri say.... we need to look beyond mullahism and violence and arrive at common solutions to real issues that are effecting people in our region.

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