In the tape aired Sunday, Al-Zawahri lists a litany of charges against Musharraf, who he says has betrayed Muslims by supporting the U.S. after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in its battle against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
“Pervez has insulted and compromised Pakistan’s sovereignty by allowing the CIA and FBI to operate freely in Pakistan and arrest, interrogate, torture, deport and detain any person, whether Pakistani or not, for as long as they like, thus turning the Pakistani army and security agencies into hunting dogs in the contemporary crusade,” said the purported tape from al-Zawahri.
