BRITISH MUSLIMS PLANNED ON TAKING THEIR FAMILIES ON A SUICIDE VACATION

More details are surfacing from the 2006 Islamic terror plot to blow up jetliners over the Atlantic Ocean. British Muslims on trial for their involvement in an airliner terror plot spoke of taking their families on suicide missions

In response to several accusations made by the questioners that Al-Qaeda engages in killing innocent Muslims, Al-Zawahiri offers an outright denial: "We do not kill innocents - not in Baghdad, nor in Morocco, nor in Algeria, nor anywhere else. If an innocent person was killed during the mujahideen's operations, then it was either an unintentional error or a necessity, as in the case where [the enemy] uses [innocent people as] a [human] shield... We fight those who kill innocents."

With respect to the December 11, 2007 Al-Qaeda attack against government and UN facilities in Algeria, which claimed the lives of dozens of bystanders, Al-Zawahiri says: "Those who were killed in the December 11 attacks in Algeria were not innocent people. According to the communiqué from Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, those [killed] were... the infidel Crusaders and government troops who protected them. Our brothers in the Islamic Maghreb are more reliable, just, and innocent than the lying sons of France [i.e., the government] who sold Algeria to [the French] and the Americans."

"The Al-Qassam [Brigades] Must Advise Their Leadership and Demand that it Return to the Correct Path [of Jihad]"

In response to several inquiries regarding his harsh criticism of Hamas, Al-Zawahiri says: "I stepped up my criticism gradually... but when they signed the Mecca Agreement there was no escape from open criticism... They did not heed their brothers' opinion and [instead] persisted without forethought in their path of entering the elections, adhering to a secular constitution, abandoning their Chechen brothers [by meeting with President Putin], and forfeiting four-fifths of Palestine in [the] Mecca [Agreement]... I criticized them and will continue to do so as long as they adhere to a secular constitution and... do not renounce the Mecca Agreement."

With respect to the military wing of Hamas, Al-Zawahiri says: "The mujahideen of the Al-Qassam [Brigades] must advise their leadership and demand that they return to the correct path [of jihad]... If they do not respond to [their advice], then let loyalty to Allah and His Messenger supersede [loyalty to] the organization. If the political leadership senses the sincerity with which the mujahideen of Al-Qassam reject the [notion of] ruling by anything other than the shari'a and... [by] the Mecca Agreement, those leaders will most likely change their position."