Qaeda video accuses Shias of fighting with US in Iraq
ISLAMABAD: A purported Al Qaeda commander has accused Shias of fighting alongside the US forces in Iraq. He claimed that mujahideen would crush foreign troops in Afghanistan.
A video issued on Friday by Al Qaeda’s media wing, Al-Sahab, shows an interview with a bearded man with a white turban identified as Abu Laith Al-Libi and describes him as an Al Qaeda leader in Khorasan, or Afghanistan.
Pakistani counter terrorism officials say Al-Libi is a Libyan and has served as an Al Qaeda spokesman and commander in eastern Afghanistan but have no information on his current whereabouts, which are not disclosed in the 45-minute video. Al-Libi defends the conduct of Sunnis mujahideen in Iraq involved in sectarian fighting with Shias, whom he accuses of fighting “shoulder to shoulder alongside the Americans”. ap
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