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Al-Qaeda names Queen as "severest enemy"

London: Al-Qaeda has named Queen Elizabeth II as ``one of the severest enemies of Islam,'' holding her ``ultimately responsible for Britain's crusader laws.'' The remarks contained in an Al-Qaeda video message justifying the 7/7 London attacks have been passed by MI5, the British domestic intelligence service, to the Queen's protection team after it obtained the unexpurgated version of the video, according to a report in The Sunday Times on Sunday. Parts of the video containing remarks by Ayman al-Zawahiri, second-in-command to Osama bin Laden in the Al-Qaeda terror network, were broadcast on Al-Jazeera, the Arabic satellite channel. The Queen's security had already been upgraded after September 11, 2001. In the video, Al-Zawahiri justified the July bombings in London and targeted the Queen as the one who is ``ultimately responsible for Britain's crusader laws,'' besides labelling her as one of Islam's ``severest enemies''. — PTI

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