Al-Qaida warns US over terror camp prisoners

A new audiotape purportedly from Osama bin Laden’s top deputy warns the US that it will pay dearly if it harms detainees at Guantanamo Bay, and urges Muslims everywhere to avenge the prisoners from their ”infidel” captors.

A tape which the Arab satellite station Al-Arabiya said was from Ayman Al-Zawahri, a top official in bin Laden’s al-Qaida terror network, said the threat was a response to Washington’s announcement that it will start putting the detainees on military trials that could result in death sentences.