Al Qaeda’s second in command Ayman al-Zawahri vowed in a videotape aired on Wednesday that the terror group would not stop attacks on US soil as long as the US strikes Muslims on their land. “If we are hit in our countries, we will not stop striking you in your country,” Zawahri said in the video aired by Al-Jazeera television. Zawahri also said he believed the US would ultimately have to talk with “the real forces” in the Islamic world to extricate itself from Iraq and Afghanistan. He said President Bush was deceiving Americans by telling them he was going after “terrorists” in Afghanistan and Iraq to keep them away from the US. He said only jihad could liberate Palestine.