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'US must negotiate with Al Qaida'
The deputy leader of Al Qaida, Ayman Al Zawahiri, said that the United States was negotiating with the wrong people in Iraq, in a video broadcast on Al Jazeera.
- Agencies
- Published: 00:00 December 20, 2006
Doha: The deputy leader of Al Qaida, Ayman Al Zawahiri, said that the United States was negotiating with the wrong people in Iraq, in a video broadcast on Al Jazeera.
In the video, Al Zawahiri hinted that Washington should be talking to Al Qaida.
“You are trying to negotiate with some parties to secure your withdrawal, but these parities won't find you an exit (from Iraq) and your attempts will yield nothing but failure,'' Al Zawahiri said on the tape, sections of which were aired in successive news bulletins.
“It seems that you will go through a painful journey of failed negotiations until you will be forced to return to negotiate with the real powers,'' he said, without identifying these powers.
He added that the terror group will continue to attack the US for as long as they strike Muslims on their land.
"If we are hit in our countries, we will not stop striking you in your country," he said.
Al Zawahiri also attacked the proposal of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to hold early elections to resolve the contest between the Fatah and Hamas parties, which has degenerated to daily gunbattles in the streets of Gaza.
“Any way other than holy war, will lead us only to loss and defeat,'' he said without saying how the two parties should settle their dispute.
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