Al-Qaida chief warns Israel over attacks AL-QAIDA'S second in command today warned they would not stand idly by while Israeli shells "burn our brothers" in Lebanon and Gaza.
Ayman al-Zawahri, number two to Osama bin Laden, said the group now saw "all the world as a battlefield open in front of us."
The taped message was broadcast by al-Jazeera television as the 15-day conflict continued.