Al-Qaeda Leader Calls for Kidnapping Westerners in Exchange for Imprisoned Jihadists
- Post 27 October 2012
- By Madeleine Morgenstern | TheBlaze.com
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahri, seen here in a still frame from a 2006 video, has called for Muslims to kidnap Westerners in exchange for imprisoned jihadists.
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The leader of Al-Qaeda is calling on Muslims to kidnap Westerners as a means to free imprisoned jihadists.
“We are seeking, by the help of Allah, to capture others and to incite Muslims to capture the citizens of the countries that are fighting Muslims in order to release our captives,” Ayman Al-Zawahri said in a more than two-hour video posted on militant web sites this week, Reuters reported.
The Egyptian-born jihadist called for the abductions as part of a vow not to “spare any efforts” to free Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, CNN reported. Abdel-Rahman is the so-called “blind sheikh” serving a life sentence in U.S. prison for masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. ... continues...
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