Qaida No. 2 urges attacks on Israel, US (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Mon, 03/24/2008 - 1:01am

Awakening council members, a Sunni group fighting al-Qaida, inspect the site where six of their comrades were killed in a US airstrike near Samarra, Iraq, Saturday, March 22, 2008.<br /><br />A U.S. airstrike struck checkpoints manned by U.S.-allied Sunni fighters north of Baghdad on Saturday, killing six guards and wounding two, Iraqi police said.<br /><br />(AP Photo/Hameed Rasheed)AP - Al-Qaida deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri called on Muslims in a new audiotape released Monday to strike Jewish and American targets in revenge for Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip earlier this month.




 

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