from Sky News
June 04, 2009
Al Qaeda's leader Osama bin Laden has told Muslims to prepare for a long war against "infidels and their agents".
He warned Muslims against alliances with Christians and Jews, saying it would annul their faith, and urged them to fight.
Parts of the tape were aired on Wednesday, in which he accused US President Barack Obama of planting the "seeds of hatred" towards America among Muslims.
But the full 25-minute audiotape has now been made available - on the day Mr Obama delivered a speech addressed to the Islamic world.
"We either live under the light of Islam or we die with dignity... brace yourselves for a long war against the world's infidels and their agents," the terror group leader said.
Bin Laden was speaking in an audio recording that was posted on an Islamist website.
This is the case of the Pakistani army as it is with America in the same dungeon against Islam. The true folk of Islam should fight them.
Parts of the tape were aired on Wednesday, in which he accused US President Barack Obama of planting the "seeds of hatred" towards America among Muslims.
But the full 25-minute audiotape has now been made available - on the day Mr Obama delivered a speech addressed to the Islamic world.
"If a Muslim became an ally of the infidels and backed them against Muslims, his faith would be annulled and he would become an apostate infidel," bin Laden said.
"Do not take Jews and Christians as allies," the Saudi-born militant went on, adding that fighting Muslim Pakistani soldiers was not sacrilegious, as they were implementing US policies.
"This is the case of the Pakistani army as it is with America in the same dungeon against Islam. The true folk of Islam should fight them," bin Laden said.
The al Qaeda leader also described Pakistani President Asif Zardari as an US ally and said he had ordered his army to fight Muslims at the behest of Washington.
Pakistan's army began battling Taliban Islamists, allies of al Qaeda, in Swat in April.
The offensive followed a militant thrust into a district 100km (60 miles) north west of the capital Islamabad.
The push had raised fears at home and abroad that the nuclear-armed country could slowly slip into militant hands.
Mr Obama chose Egypt to make an address to Muslims in which he tried to dispel resentment inflamed by US involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan after al Qaeda's September 11 attacks
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