Message from the leader of Al-Qaeda on the 20th anniversary of September 11

“The current stage demands that we exhaust the enemy to tears and groans due to the economic and military flight”, indicates the chief.

Al-Qaeda broadcast the footage through its media channel, Sahab Media, titled “Jerusalem will never be Judaized”, where he refers to the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.

“Today (the United States) is leaving Afghanistan, broken and defeated after twenty years of war,” he said. Moreover, he 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”.

After the death of the founder of Al-Qaeda, Saudi Arabia Osama Bin Laden, in 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 its commanders and the alleged poor health of the Egyptian.

The resilience of Al Qaeda, an organization that emerged in the 1980s when the United States funded Islamist resistance to curb the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, was due to its close collaboration with the Taliban and Pakistani jihadist allies. to find refuge in the region and to sit from there new bases to advance against different enemies, governments and other groups, mainly the Islamic State.

Thus, new organizations have emerged in the area, such as the Pakistani Taliban Movement (TTP) and Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), as well as others such as the former Al-Nusra Front, present in Syria and Lebanon, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, with operations in North Africa, and Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, active in Yemen and Saudi Arabia.

The unknown is greater as to what impact this will have for the West, especially if this resurgence involves further attacks on its interests in other Islamic countries and beyond.