Audio Zawahiri\\\'s, uploaded in US: AL leader

Awami League leader Hassan Mahmud is certain that the audio message calling for jihad in Bangladesh has been issued by al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri.
He told the press Tuesday that the audio clip had been uploaded on the Internet from Arizona, in the United States.
The message, claimed to be that of Zawahiri and uploaded with his photo, questioned the creation of Bangladesh and called on the country’s Muslims to wage a battle against ‘anti-Islamist conspiracies’.
Several ruling party MPs reacted sharply in Parliament over the al-Qaeda message following media reports Saturday.
They claimed that the BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami had links with al-Qaeda.
Reacting to the remarks, BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said at a press conference Monday that the Awami League was plotting to get the international community and the US, in particular, on its side by making out Bangladesh to be a ‘failed state’ affected by militancy and fundamentalism.
Hassan Mahmud Tuesday rebutted the Fakhrul’s allegation, saying the BNP and Jamaat were trying to destabilise the country by joining hands with al-Qaeda, according to a news agency.