The leader of al-Qaida today (October 13, 2012) called for a holy war against the United States and Israel over an anti-Islamic video -- titled "The Innocence of Muslims" -- which triggered mayhem in the Muslim world, according to the Guardian (British) website.
Ayman al-Zawahiri praised the Muslim demonstrators who breached the U.S. embassy in Cairo and the attackers who stormed the U.S. consulate in Benghazi last month in violence linked to the video as "honest and zealous."
The Benghazi attack on September 11 -- in which the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and three others were killed -- is now believed to have been carried out by al-Qaida-linked militants.
The trailer for the film produced by Nakoula Basseley Nakoula -- a California-based Egyptian-American angry at the treatment of Coptic Orthodox Christians in his native country -- triggered violence across the Muslim world after it was uploaded to YouTube, with at least 17 people killed in violent protests.
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