Al-Qaeda released video of its leader claiming responsibility for attack on Twin Towers

The terrorist group circulated the video amid rumors of the poor health or even the possible death of the leader, who, according to UN Security Council reports, is “somewhere” between Afghanistan and Afghanistan. Pakistan.

However, the video does not give details of the date of its recording, although Zawahiri himself refers to the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, which would show that it is recent, since the last American soldier left this. country on the last 30. August.

“Today (the United States) comes out of Afghanistan, broken and defeated after twenty years of war,” Al Zawahiri said on the video looking at the camera.

“Battlefield”

He also calls for a “war” in which “the whole world is the battlefield”, because “exhausting an enemy equipped with the latest weapons does not require enormous resources”.

The video also includes excerpts from texts that say “jihad is a lifelong endeavor in Afghanistan, Palestine, the Philippines and wherever tyrants, despots and oppressors exist”.

After the death of the founder of Al-Qaeda, the Saudi Arabian Osama bin Laden, during a US military operation in Abbotabad (Pakistan) in May 2011, Al Zawahiri took command of the organization, which was reduced to a network with many branches but without central management, weakened by the successive losses of its commanders and the alleged ill health of the Egyptian.