Al-Qaeda number two vows to continue fight against US

DOHA, Nov 29 (AFP) - Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri warned in a video broadcast on Monday that his group would continue its fight against the United States.
"You (the Americans) must know that we are a nation of patience and perseverence," he said in the video shown by the Arab satellite news channel Al-Jazeera.
"We will persevere with our fight against you until the end of time," said Zawahiri, the right hand man of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
"The results of the American elections don't concern us. What matters to us is the way the United States behaves towards Muslims."
In a message aired on October 1, also on the Doha-based Al-Jazeera, Zawahiri called on young Muslims to resist the "Crusader campaign" and threatened the interests of several Western and Asian countries.
The United States believes Zawahiri, who has a 25-million-dollar bounty on his head, is the main strategist and key ideologist in the Al-Qaeda hierarchy.

11/29/2004 18:40 GMT - AFP