Top Al-Qaeda Official Warns US

World | August 3, 2003, Sunday // 00:00

An audio tape purported to be from a top al-Qaeda official has warned the United States it will pay a "high price" if any of the men it is holding at Guantanamo Bay are harmed. The US is holding more than 600 alleged al-Qaeda and Taleban fighters at its Guantanamo base. It said in July that some of them should face trial in a military tribunal. The tape was broadcast by al-Arabiya television, which said it was from Ayman al-Zawahri, widely believed to be Osama Bin Laden's right hand man.

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