A videotape message from al-Qaida leader Osama bin laden’s top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was broadcast yesterday by al Jazeera. The network said it broadcast only 10 percent of the five minute tape. The tape was delivered exactly one month after the July 7 bombings in London that killed 56 people, including four suicide attackers. In the excerpts aired by Al- Jazeera, al-Zawahiri did not directly claim that al-Qaida carried out the July 7 or July 21 attacks. But he presented the attacks as a result of British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s decision to participate in the invasion and occupation of Iraq and said that there will be more attacks.

• Ayman Al-Zawahiri saying, “What you have seen in New York and Washington and the casualties you are suffering in Afghanistan and Iraq, are only the initial losses, and if you (in the United States) continue the same hostile policies against Muslims you will see what will make you forget the horrors of Vietnam.”