SPIEGELONLINE INTERNATIONAL: In a new al-Qaida video, the terror network's No. 2 calls for Muslims to unite in jihad and talks of plans to set up new camps in Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia. Meanwhile, Islamists in Germany say that al-Qaida are no longer radical enough and call them "non-believers."
Al-Qaida's No. 2 has released a new video calling for Muslims to unite in jihad and talking of plans to set up bases in Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia.
The video was obtained by the Washington, D.C.-based institute SITE, which monitors radical Islamist communication, on Wednesday ahead of its official release.
In the one-and-a-half hour video entitled "The Advice of One Concerned," Ayman al-Zawahri, who is al-Qaida's No. 2 after Osama bin Laden, talks about the terror organization's future strategy. The network, he says, plans to set up camps in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia to train jihadists. Although al-Qaida is believed to already have camps on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan, and is known to be present in Iraq, the claim the group plans to set up new camps reflects a new self-confidence on the part of the terror network. Bin Laden's Deputy Calls for Muslims to Unite in Jihad (more)
Mark Alexander
