Qaeda vows more attacks on tape

A purported audio tape by a member of Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network on Sunday promised more attacks against Americans everywhere and denied any links to the killing of a Shi’ite Muslim cleric in Iraq.

‘‘We announce there will be new attacks inside and outside which would make America forget September 11,’’ a Qaeda spokesman said in the tape broadcast by the Arabic television channel Al Arabiya. The tape, dated September 3, came a few days before the second anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks for which Washington blames Al Qaeda.

Some US and Iraqi reports suggested that Al Qaeda was behind a car bomb attack that killed top Shi’ite cleric Mohammed Baqer Al-Hakim and 83 others in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf last month.