Al-Qaida & Bin Laden Finger US, Musharraf

"Bin Laden Tape to Declare War on Musharraf" from the AP reports that Osama bin Laden is to release another in his latest spate of propaganda tapes from al-Sahab, declaring war on Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf - no doubt cashing in on the latest triangulation with Musharraf, Bhutto and Sharif in bids to assert leadership - and worrisome in this fragile nuclear state.

Meanwhile his deputy, Ayman al-Zawhari released a long tape of his own, taking on the US and others who collude with the "infidels"...

"What they claim to be the strongest power in the history of mankind is today being defeated in front of the Muslim vanguards of jihad six years after the two raids on New York and Washington," al-Zawahri said, speaking in what appeared to be an office, with shelves of religious books and an automatic rifle leaning against them.

"The Crusaders themselves have testified to their defeat in Afghanistan at the hands of the lions of the Taliban," he said. "The Crusaders have testified to their own defeat in Iraq at the hands of the mujahideen, who have taken the battle of Islam to the heart of the Islam world."...

He condemns Arab Gulf governments that have allied themselves with the United States, saying they have "sold the Islamic nation, colluded with the enemies of Islam and backed the infidels. And this is the greater form of being an infidel ... But Allah permitting, they shall leave the Gulf under the blows of the mujahideen," bin Laden said.