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Al Qaeda calls for fresh wave of terror attacks to ‘bleed U.S.economically’

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has urged  Muslims to launch attacks on ‘American soil’ to lead up to a ‘war on its own  land’.

In an audio speech released online a day  after the twelfth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, al-Zawahiri urged sustained  attacks on the U.S. which he said would ‘bleed America economically’ by forcing  the country to spend large amounts on defence.

And he encouraged Muslims to seize any  opportunity to land ‘a large strike’ on the U.S. even if this took years of  patience, according to a translation on  the U.S. SITE monitoring service.

In the excerpts of the 72-minute address that  were published by SITE, he said ‘one brother or a few of the brothers’  should launch smaller strikes on the U.S. wherever possible.

Al-Zawahiri, who was Osama Bin Laden’s  physician and right-hand man and tops America’s list of ‘most wanted’ terrorists  released in 2001 with a ÂŁ15million bounty on his head, is credited by many as  having been the brains behind the 9/11 attacks and those on the London transport  system in July 2005 that left 52 people dead.

Western counter-terrorism chiefs have warned  that the broadcast could provide fuel for radicalised ‘lone wolves’ who might  have had no direct contact with al Qaeda as much as operatives like those who  carried out complex plots like the September 11 strikes.

Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the  attacks in 2001 when hijacked aeroplanes were flown into New York’s World Trade  Center, the Pentagon in Washington and a Pennsylvania field.

Al-Zawahiri was quoted as saying in the  speech: ‘We should bleed America economically by provoking it to continue in its  massive expenditure on its security, for the weak point of America is its  economy, which has already begun to stagger due to the military and security  expenditure.’

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