Zawahri says Al Qaeda behind London blasts: video

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Zawahri says Al Qaeda behind London blasts: video

DUBAI - Al Qaeda carried out the July suicide bombings in London to strike at “British arrogance,” the group’s second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri said in a video tape aired on Arab satellite channel Al Jazeera on Monday.


“The London attack is one of the attacks that Al Qaeda ... had the honor of carrying out against ... British arrogance, the aggression of the crusader British against the Muslim nation for over a hundred years,” Zawahri said.

He denounced Britain for “the historical crime of setting up Israel and the continuing crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq.

“These and other attacks have revealed the true hypocritical face of Western civilization that talks about human rights and freedom only as long as it is in its interest,” he said, citing the planned toughening of British security laws after the London blasts.