Ayman al-Zawahiri
DUBAI – Al-Qaeda on Thursday named its second in command Ayman al-Zawahiri to succeed its slain chief Osama bin Laden and vowed to relentlessly pursue its “jihad’ against the United States and Israel.
“The general command of Al-Qaeda announces, after consultations, the appointment of Sheikh Ayman al-Zawahiri as head of the group,” the jihadist network said in statement posted on an Islamist website.
Egyptian Zawahiri, the group’s long-time number two, succeeds bin Laden who was killed by US commandos in a May 2 raid in Pakistan.
The statement said that under Zawahiri’s leadership Al-Qaeda would relentlessly pursue its ‘jihad’ (holy war) against the United States and Israel.
“We seek with the aid of God to call for the religion of truth and incite our nation to fight … by carrying out jihad against the apostate invaders … with their head being crusader America and its servant Israel, and whoever supports them,” said the statement.
The fight would continue “until all invading armies leave the land of Islam.”
The extremist network affirmed that it would not “recognise any legitimacy of the so-called State of Israel.”
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