CAIRO, Egypt—Osama bin Laden’s chief deputy proclaimed the United States will ultimately be defeated in Iraq and Afghanistan in a videotape broadcast that appeared to be a rallying call for al-Qaeda ahead of the anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
“The defeat of America in Iraq and Afghanistan has become a matter of time, with God’s help,” Ayman al-Zawahri said on the tape, which was broadcast Thursday by the pan-Arab television station Al-Jazeera. “The Americans in both countries are between two fires, if they continue they bleed to death and if they withdraw they lose everything.”
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