Al-Qaida threatened Israel and the United States over the fighting in Lebanon. Ayman Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden’s deputy, issued a recorded statement Thursday calling for Muslims to avenge Israel’s attacks on Lebanese Hezbollah combatants, which Washington has tacitly endorsed.
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