Ayman al Zawahiri released a new tape tuesday, calling on the people of Pakistan to fight the American “occupiers.” It included the traditional blustering about Crusaders occupying Afghanistan and Pakistan, but went out of the way to emphasize that it is every individual Pakistani Muslim’s responsibility to fight the US. The transcript is available from NEFA here.
(ADN Kronos, NEFA)
"He's talking about the American 'occupation' of Pakistan ... Pakistan isn't occupied by anybody. What he means is the operations against the Pakistani Taliban by the Pakistani army…
…He says that these operations are run by the US - that this is not a Pakistani war, this is a US proxy war. It's that kind of inflammatory language that he's hoping will get people riled up."
– Imran Khan, Al Jazeera
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