Global jihad could be behind rocket attacks on Israel, claim terror experts,Al Qaeda's Zawahri tells Hamas don't accept truce

Jerusalem, Feb.23: Terrorism analysts have claimed that Al-Qaida affiliated global jihadi groups could be playing an important role in the trickle of rocket fire and border attacks directed against Israel from southern Lebanon and Gaza in recent days. When I look at the Katyusha attack from southern Lebanon, my instinct tells me a global jihad group is linked," the Jerusalem Post quoted Yoram Schweitzer, director of the Program on Terrorism and Low Intensity Conflict at Tel Aviv University's Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), as saying..more..http://www.dailyindia.com/show/298740.php
Al Qaeda's Zawahri tells Hamas don't accept truce
DUBAI, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's second-in-command urged Palestinians in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip not to succumb to Arab pressure for a truce with Israel and vowed to support fighting against the Jewish state.
The militant leader in a recording posted on the Internet on Monday also called on Muslims in Yemen, Afghanistan and Somalia to press ahead with fighting "crusaders" -- a term used to denote the West -- and their agents.
"Israel's Arab aides are trying to impose a calm (truce) on the people of Gaza to stop their jihad ... I tell our brothers and folk in Gaza that jihad to liberate Palestine and all Islamic land should not stop," Ayman al-Zawahri said...more..http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LN296629.htm