Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri urged Muslims to keep up their protests against an anti-Islam film produced in the United States, in a speech published on jihadist forums on Saturday. In the seven-minute audio, Zawahiri hailed "the honourable people... who stormed the US embassy in Benghazi and those who protested outside the US mission in Cairo where they replaced the US flag with that of Islam and jihad."
Zawahiri called on those who protested "to continue to counter the US-Crusader-Zionist attack on Islam and Muslims and urge other Muslims to follow suit." He condemned the United States.