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Zawahiri's threats don't baffle me: Bush

None | ByIndo-Asian News Service, Washington
Jul 28, 2006 11:40 AM IST

Al-Zawahiri had issued a videotaped statement pledging to attack Israelis and their American allies.

US President George W Bush said he was "not surprised" by threats issued by Al-Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri to avenge Israel's military assault in Lebanon.

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Bush told reporters at the White House late on Thursday that the comments are typical of terrorists who advocate the killing of innocent civilians.

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"I'm not surprised that people who use terrorist tactics would start speaking out. It doesn't surprise me," said Bush.

"He (al-Zawahiri) believes that people ought to use terrorist tactics, the killing of innocent people, to achieve his objective," he added.

Al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian believed to be hiding along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border with Osama bin Laden, issued a videotaped statement on Thursday pledging to attack Israelis and their American allies.

In the video broadcast on the Arabic satellite channel al-Jazeera, al-Zawahiri said the latest developments in Gaza and Lebanon constituted a "crusader-Zionist war" against the Muslim world.

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