In Video, Qaeda Deputy Condemns Bush and Pope
New York TimesBy HASSAN M. FATTAH
Published: September 30, 2006
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Sept. 29 — Ayman al-Zawahri, Al Qaeda’s deputy leader, branded President Bush a “lying failure” and Pope Benedict XVI a “charlatan” in a video released Friday.
The 18-minute video, Mr. Zawahri’s second in a month, also responded to recent reports that senior members of Al Qaeda had been transferred to the United States detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba; to the planned deployment of peacekeeping troops in Darfur; and to Pope Benedict’s controversial comments in a lecture this month in which he cited a 14th-century description of aspects of Islam as “evil and inhuman.”
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