Al-Qaeda released video of its leader on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack on the Twin Towers

Twenty years after the Twin Towers attacks, the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization on Saturday released a video of its leader, the Egyptian Ayman al Zawahiri, defending the September 11 terrorists in the United States.

Al-Qaeda broadcast the footage through its media channel, Sahab Media, titled “Jerusalem will never be Judaized”, where Al Zawahiri appears wearing a long robe and a long white beard speaking for over an hour on a wide variety of topics, including the Palestinian cause.

The terrorist group circulated the video amid rumors of the poor health or even possible death of the leader, who, according to UN Security Council reports, is “somewhere” between Afghanistan and the United Nations. 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) is leaving Afghanistan, broken and defeated after twenty years of war“Al Zawahiri said in the video looking at the camera.

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 an ongoing task. 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 an operation in Abbotabad (Pakistan), Al Zawahiri took command of the organization, which was reduced to a network with multiple branches but without central management, weakened by the successive losses of his commanders and the supposed poor health of the Egyptian.

Source: EFE