LONDON, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- A video televised Thursday on the Arabic news channel al-Jazeera seemed to establish a link between al-Qaida and the July 7 bomb attacks in London.
The video featured images of a man who resembled Mohammad Sidique Khan, one of the bombers, praising Osama bin Laden, the New York Times reported.
"We are at war and I am a soldier," Khan said on the tape, "and now you too will taste the reality of this situation."
The Times reported the video also showed Ayman al-Zawahiri, the No. 2 man in al-Qaida terror network, speaking about "the blessed London battle, which came as a slap to the face of the tyrannical, crusader British arrogance."
Al-Zawahiri said the London attack -- "like its glorious predecessors in New York, Washington and Madrid" took "the battle to the enemies' land."
It was not clear when the video was made. British investigators have favored a theory that the July 7 bombers were a home-grown group of militants acting on their own, the newspaper reported.
