PAKISTAN:Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has vowed to retaliate against Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf for the killing of a rebel cleric and a raid on his mosque in July, a US website said yesterday.
"We in al-Qaeda organisation call on God to witness that we will retaliate for the blood of ... Abdul Rashid Ghazi and those with him against Musharraf and those who help him, and for all the pure and innocent blood," it quoted bin Laden as saying in English excerpts of his comments.
At least 75 of Ghazi's followers were killed in an assault on the Lal Masjid, a mosque and school complex. The group is sympathetic to the Taliban, which was removed from power in Afghanistan by US-led forces.