A prominent leader of al Qaeda has called for attacks in Western countries, particularly Britain, in retaliation for Israel's offensive in Gaza.
Abu Yahya al-Libi was behind the attacks on London Underground in 2005. He blames London for creating the Jewish state and told British people to expect reprisals for the Israeli "annihilation campaign" in Gaza. Sonia Legg reports.SOUNDBITES: Abu Yahya Al-Libi, prominent Al Qaeda leader, saying (Arabic):"It's high time that this criminal country, I mean Britain, paid the price of its historic crime, which we have not and will not forget.""There is no child who dies in Palestine, or a woman who is made a widow, or blood that is let or bodies ripped apart, or homes destroyed or a catastrophe that occurs without this being the outcome of the (country) that handed Palestine to the Jews and settled them in its corners and allowed them to establish their state upon it, the cursed Britain."
