Bin Laden Calls For Jihad Over Gaza

In a message entitled 'A Call for Jihad to Stop the Aggression against Gaza', the speaker called for a jiad against the Israeli offensive against Hamas and criticised Arab regimes for preventing their people who want to 'liberate Palestine'. Photo: AP

Bin Laden Urges Jihad Against Israel Over Gaza
-- Yahoo News/AP

CAIRO, Egypt – Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden urged Muslims to launch a jihad against Israel and condemned Arab governments as allies of the Jewish state in a new message aimed at harnessing anger in the Mideast over the Gaza offensive.

Bin Laden spoke in an audiotape posted Wednesday on Islamic militant Web sites where al-Qaida usually issues its messages. It was his first tape since May and came nearly three weeks after Israel started its campaign against Gaza's militant Hamas rulers.

"There is only one strong way to bring the return of Al-Aqsa and Palestine, and that is jihad in the path of God," bin Laden said in the 22-minute audiotape, referring to the revered Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. "The duty is to urge people to jihad and to enlist the youth into jihad brigades."

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