From the Daily Telegraph:

Apparently the London bombing’s were all Tony Blair’s fault and we should expect more of the same:

Ayman al-Zawahri, the al-Qa’eda deputy leader, has threatened further attacks on London in a video broadcast by Arab television station Al-Jazeera.

Blaming Tony Blair for the attacks, Zawahri said: “Blair’s policies will bring more destruction to Britons after the London explosions.”

He also threatened America, warning of horrors “worse than they faced in Vietnam”.

Charming. I wonder what side of the bed he got out of this morning.

He’s really narked at the west for interfering with the otherwise idyllic societies of the middle east:

“Our message is clear: you will not be safe until you withdraw from our land, stop stealing our oil and wealth and stop supporting the corrupt rulers.”

Well, I’m a little slow on middle eastern affairs so remind me again: which rulers in that part of the world aren’t corrupt?

By the way, for anybody questioning the existence of al-Quaida (how do you spell that word?) al-Jazeera covers the same story on its on-line front page and they regard him as al-Kyeeda’s deputy too. In fact, they refer to his as “al-Zawahri, Osama bin Laden’s deputy as well as al cayieda’s deputy”.

“To the people of the crusader coalition … our blessed Shaikh Osama has offered you a truce so that you leave Muslim land. As he said, you will not dream of security until we live it as a reality in Palestine, and until all your infidel armies leave Prophet Mohammad’s lands,” he said.

President Bush took it all very lightly:

“They’re terrorists and they’re killers and they will kill innocent people…so they can impose their dark vision on the world,” Bush said as he stood alongside Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.

“Zawahiri was a part of that team that attacked us on September the 11th, 2001,” Bush said. “He was part of an al Qaeda group that said, ‘Well, we’ll try to achieve our objective in attacking America.’

“They must not have understood the nature of our country. I vowed then that we would stay on the offense against these people. We owe it to the American people and other freedom-loving countries to bring these killers to justice.”

Okay, so he wants to kill the guy. But apart from that, he took it well.