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09/02/2005:

"Al-Qaeda number two claims London attacks: Al-Jazeera video"

Al-Jazeera aired snippets of a video tape attributed to Al-Qaeda, in which it said the network's number two Ayman al-Zawahiri claims responsibility for the July 7 London bombings.

The Qatar-based Arab television station said the video, more of which was to be broadcast later in the evening, also showed footage of one of the bombers, Mohammad Sidique Khan, outlining the reasons for his action.

Al-Zawahiri describes the rush-hour bombings on underground trains and a bus as a "slap for the policy" of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the channel said.

Al-Jazeera aired footage of a turbaned man alleged to be Sidique and said he explained the reasons for his action.

He blamed Western citizens for the bombings in London and last year in Madrid, as well as for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, "because they elect governments which perpetrate crimes against humanity."

Sidique Khan, a 30-year-old British national of Pakistani origin, was named as one of the four suicide bombers who killed 52 people in coordinated attacks in the British capital.
news.yahoo.com

Yeah right. A video appears with BOTH Zwahiri and Khan on it. The SAME video. Zwahiri appears to be the same sort of fabricated boogie-man as al Zarqawi in Iraq, and indeed Osama himself.