DUBAI, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda group said on Tuesday that hijacked plane attacks on the United States would continue and that the "battle" would not end until America withdraws from Muslim lands.
Al-Qaeda spokesman Sulaiman Bu Ghaith said in a message carried on Qatar's al-Jazeera Television that the militant group believed in "terrorism against oppressors".
"Americans should know...The storm of the (hijacked) planes will not stop," he said, referring to the suicide plane attacks on New York and Washington last month.
The station did not explain the origin of the statement but it appeared to be a video recording. Sulaiman Bu Ghaith had appeared with bin Laden on a recorded statement issued via Jazeera last Sunday.
"Let them know that by invading the land of Afghanistan, they opened a new page of enmity and conflict between us and the infidel forces," he added.
He also referred to U.S.-led air strikes on Afghanistan in the hunt for bin Laden as a "crusade".