The following are excerpts from a tape featuring Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on August 4, 2005.

Al-Zawahiri: While America humiliates the Koran, its secretary of state arrived at the American University in Cairo to lecture on the freedom of nations. However, Rice got the wrong address. Her real audience was not at the American University, but half a kilometer to the east, at the National Security Department of Investigation, where the real soldiers of America gather - the ones who defend American and Israeli interests in Egypt - the people who benefit from its aid and are trained by its experts.

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I call upon the Muslim clerics, the writers, the thinkers, the tradesmen, the merchants, and the officers to convene and deliberate on the ways to get rid of these corrupt and corrupting regimes that burden our nation. I call upon them to start preparing for a change, however much time and effort it takes, and to spread the call for change throughout the nation. They must know that victory comes at a price, since a dark destiny awaits us unless we resist.