CAIRO (AP) — Al-Qaida's leader is condemning the overthrow of
President Mohammed Morsi, but also blaming the ousted Egyptian leader
for trying to "satisfy America" by abandoning jihad.
Ayman al-Zawahri spoke in a 15-minute Internet audio message posted late Friday, his second this week.
He says Morsi, toppled in a July 3 coup after millions took to the
streets demanding his overthrow, was targeted by a conspiracy of
secularists, Coptic Christians, and Egypt's "Americanized" army for
being Islamist.
But he also condemned Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood for having "tried
its best to satisfy America and the secularists" by relinquishing
"jihad," usually invoked by al-Qaida to mean armed struggle. Morsi was
Egypt's first freely elected president.
The message's authenticity could not be independently confirmed but was posted on a militant website commonly used by al-Qaida.
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