DUBAI: Osama bin Laden has vowed to widen al-Qaida’s fight to include Israel. The United States seeking to set up a “national unity government’ in ‘Iraq to exploit oil resources and to establish military bases in the country, Bin Laden said.
According to foreign news agency bin Laden in a new audiotape posted on the Web said “The most evil of the traitors are those who trade away their religion for the sake of their mortal life.”
He denounced Abdul-Sattar Abu Risha, the leader of the Anbar Awakening Council, a tribal force fighting al-Qaida in western Iraq, who was killed in a bombing in September. Bin Laden said U.S. and Iraqi officials are seeking to set up a “national unity government.”
"Our duty is to foil these dangerous schemes, which try to prevent the establishment of an Islamic state in Iraq, which would be a wall of resistance against American schemes to divide Iraq,” he said.
Bin Laden also vowed to widen al-Qaida’s fight to include Israel, stepping up al-Qaida’s attempts to use the Israeli-Arab conflict to rally supporters.
"I would like to assure our people in Palestine that we will expand our jihad there,” bin Laden said.
"We intend to liberate Palestine, the whole of Palestine fromthe (Jordan) river to the sea,” he said