Ayman al-Zawahri
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Al-Qaeda's Zawahri says wipe Israel from the map
Terror group's media arm posts interview with movement's No.2 man who says 'Israel is a crime that should be removed.' Zawahri also accuses US President Obama of wanting future Palestinian state to be 'an extension of the CIA'
Al-Qaeda's second-in-command
Ayman al-Zawahri said Israel should
be wiped off the map and described the Jewish state as a crime against Muslims.
Zawahri also accused US President Barack Obama of conducting a policy on Israeli-Palestinian issues that was bound to end in failure for the Palestinians, and said Obama wanted a Palestinian state that would serve as "an extension of the CIA."
"Israel is a crime that should be removed," Zawahri said in an interview with al Qaeda's media arm As-sahab, posted on an Islamist website on Monday.
Al-Qaeda leaders have often said that they would focus their holy war on Israel after the creation of an Islamic state in Iraq.
Al-Qaeda has no recognizable presence in Israel, or in the Palestinian Territories which are dominated by the Islamist group Hamas and the secular Fatah movement led by US-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
