OSAMA bin Laden's top aide has urged Somali Islamists to launch an Iraq-style guerrilla campaign of suicide and other forms of attacks against Ethiopian forces in Somalia.Ayman al-Zawahri put out the call in an audio tape posted on the internet today. "As happened in Iraq and Afghanistan, when the world's strongest power was defeated by the campaigns of the mujahideen troops going to heaven, so its slaves shall be defeated on the Muslim lands of Somalia," al-Zawahri said.
"You must ambush, mine, raid and (carry out) martryrdom campaigns so that you can wipe them out," said Zawahri, al-Qaeda's deputy leader.
The tape was posted on a web site used by Islamist militants and al-Qaeda-linked groups.
Ethiopian forces helped Somalia's interim government rout Islamists in a two-week war.