But aid agencies like mine are struggling to respond to the needs of people like Sahab and to provide them with basic services.

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The more than 33 minutes-long tape includes English subtitles, and English and Arabic transcripts were released by As Sahab, al Qaeda's media production center, Mansfield said.

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"I am not defending Omar al-Bashir or his regime, nor am I defending what it has done in Darfur and elsewhere, " Ayman al-Zawahiri said in the statement released by al Qaeda's production company, as-Sahab Media.

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