An online video from CAIRO (Reuters) shows where Al Qaeda
leader Ayman al-Zawahri is warning the United States of the "gravest
consequences" if Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev or
any other
Muslim prisoner is executed.
Tsarnaev, named in a new online video message from Zawahri,
was sentenced last year to death by lethal injection for the 2013 bomb attack,
which killed three people and injured more than 260. The attack was carried out
along side his brother, Tamerlan, who was killed in a confrontation with police
soon after.
Zawahri, the Egyptian-born Islamist, who became al Qaeda's
leader after U.S. forces killed Osama bin Laden in 2011, urged Muslims to take
captive as many Westerners as possible, especially those whose countries had
joined the "Crusaders' Campaign led by the United States".
“If the U.S. administration kills our brother the hero
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev or any Muslim, it ... will bring America’s nationals the
gravest consequences,” Zawahri said as he was shown wearing white robes and
sitting in front of green velvet drapes explaining that the western captives
could then be exchanged for muslim prisoners.
Western powers "are criminals and they only understand
the language of force", he added.
The nearly hour-long video, which included images of
Tsarnaev, gave no indication of the location of Zawahri, believed to be based
close to the Afghan-Pakistan border.
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