CAIRO,Egypt: Al-Qaida's top deputy in a new audiotape Tuesday accused Shiite Iran of spreading a conspiracy theory about who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks as a way to discredit the real power of the Sunni terror group.
Ayman al-Zawahri, al-Qaida's No. 2, has stopped up his denunciations of Iran in recent messages in part to depict the terror group as the Arabs' top defense against the Persian nation's rising power in the Middle East.
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