'Zawahiri ordered Benazir's assassination'

LONDON (Agencies) - A top Al-Qaeda commander originally thought to have died last year has released a video warning India of future terror attacks similar to those in Mumbai in November, the BBC reported Tuesday.
Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, an Egyptian Al-Qaeda leader based in Afghanistan, also called on the people of Pakistan to overthrow their president and government, the British broadcaster said.
"India should know that it will have to pay a heavy price if it attacks Pakistan," he said in the video, according to quotes published on the BBC website.
"The Mujahideen will sunder your armies into the ground, like they did to the Russians in Afghanistan," he added, referring to the defeat of the Soviet army in the 1980s by US-backed Afghan fighters.
Yazid also referred to India's 'humiliation' over the Mumbai attacks, in which 10 gunmen killed 165 people during a 60-hour siege on the country's financial capital.
Yazid was thought to have died in the Bajaur tribal region of Afghanistan in August when Pakistani helicopter gunships carried out an offensive in the area, a haven for Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters.
The bespectacled, bearded Yazid has been named by US officials as Al-Qaeda's commander in Afghanistan and was identified by the 9/11 Commission as the group's chief financial manager.
Yazid is said to be a close aide of Osama bin Laden's Egyptian deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Yazid further said the decision to kill former Pakistani Prime Minister and PPP leader Benazir Bhutto was made by Al-Qaeda leader Aiman Al-Zawahiri.
Indian Defence Minister AK Antony said his million-strong military was ready to counter such threats.
"One thing I can tell you... Whatever threat is coming from any quarter or in any shape, our armed forces are ready to face them... anytime," Antony said in the southern Indian city of Thiruvananthapuram.
Antony, however, said he had not come across this particular report.