Tens of thousands to die: al-Qaeda

From correspondents in Dubai
21feb05

AL-QAEDA today warned the West it faced defeat in its "new crusade" against the Islamic world, which would cost tens of thousands of lives and the collapse of its economy.

A videotape of the terror group's No.2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was aired by Al-Jazeera television this morning.
"Your new crusade will end, God willing, with the same defeat as its predecessors, but only after you have suffered tens of thousands of dead and the destruction of your economy," Zawahiri said in his message to "the peoples of the West".