NICOSIA – Ayman al-Zawahri, al Qaeda’s Egyptian-born number two, has said that the United States is installing sympathetic new regimes in Tunisia and Egypt, demanding the Muslims to rise up against ‘whippers’ and ‘invaders’. The SITE monitoring service Monday said Zawahiri had released the third of a series of audio messages on uprisings in the Arab world, recorded between the fall of Tunisia’s regime and Hosni Mubarak’s government in Egypt.
“However, the reins of the affairs remain with America’s men, its agents and their soldiers…” Zawahiri said, adding that the same thing was happening in Egypt.
Zawahiri said a ‘secular alternative’ was emerging in the shape of Mohamed ElBaradei, the former Vienna-based UN atomic chief.
