last year, has appeared in a video warning India of more Mumbai-style
terror attacks if it tried to attack Pakistan.
"India should know that it will have to pay a heavy price if it
attacks Pakistan," Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, believed to be al-Qaeda's
military commander in Afghanistan and ranked behind No 2 Ayman
al-Zawahiri, said in a 20-minute video in Arabic received by BBC.
Yazid, who the Pakistani military said may have been killed in
fighting last August in the Bajaur tribal region, said, "The
Mujahideen will sunder your armies into the ground, like they did to
the Russians in Afghanistan.
"They will target your economic centres and raze them to the ground."
Yazid denounced the ban on militant groups in Pakistan following the
Mumbai attacks and asked the people of Pakistan to rise up and
overthrow the government and President Asif Ali Zardari, the
BBCreported.
The Al-Qaeda leader is said to have been involved in a number of
terror attacks, including last year's Danish Embassy bombings, in
Pakistan and had claimed the responsibility of assassinating former
Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
He was last heard in August 2008 when he confirmed the death of
Al-Qaeda chemical-weapons expert Midhat Mursi al-Sayid Umar.
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