(CNN) -- Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, facing an international arrest warrant, is paying the price for pandering to the West, al Qaeda's second-in-command said in an audio statement released Tuesday. 

Ayman al-Zawahiri, seen here in 2007, said Tuesday the Sudanese president pandered to the West. 

"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. 

But, he said, "the issue isn't one of Darfur and solving its problems; the issue is one of making excuses for more foreign interference in the Muslims' countries in the framework of the contemporary Zionist Crusade." 

The warrant issued by the International Criminal Court earlier this month accuses al-Bashir of war crimes and crimes against humanity, charges he denies. In response, Sudan ordered 13 international aid groups to leave the country, groups that the United Nations says provide roughly half the assistance delivered in Darfur. 

"The Bashir regime is reaping what it sowed," al-Zawahiri said. "For many long years, it continued to back down and backtrack in front of American Crusader pressure." 

He further accused Sudan of expelling members of the mujahedeen who had sought refuge there, particularly Osama bin Laden, and declaring "in an audacious lie that they had left voluntarily, then attempting to beg payment for that from the Saudi regime and the Americans." 

Al-Zawahiri asked, "Why hasn't the United Nations moved to protect the Palestinians in Gaza from Israeli barbarity and criminality, while it pretends to cry over the suffering of the people of Darfur? Why hasn't the United Nations and the international community intervened to lift the siege from Gaza, while it pretends to cry over the people of Darfur being deprived of relief and aid?" 
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The warrant issued by the International Criminal Court earlier this month
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, facing an international arrest warrant
pandering to the West
is paying the price for pandering to the West
war crimes and crimes against humanity
The warrant issued by the International Criminal Court earlier this month accuses al-Bashir of war crimes and crimes against humanity
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he ordered 13 international aid groups to leave the country
In response, Sudan ordered 13 international aid groups to leave the country
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the United Nations says provide roughly half the assistance delivered in Darfur
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al Qaeda's production company, as-Sahab Media. 
Ayman al-Zawahiri
Ayman al-Zawahiri, seen here in 2007, said Tuesday the Sudanese president pandered to the West. 
pandering to the West.
 said Tuesday the Sudanese president pandered to the West. 
expelling members of the mujahedeen who had sought refuge there
He further accused Sudan of expelling members of the mujahedeen who had sought refuge there, particularly Osama bin Laden
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particularly Osama bin Laden
the Palestinians in Gaza
Why hasn't the United Nations moved to protect the Palestinians in Gaza 
Israeli barbarity and criminality
protect the Palestinians in Gaza from Israeli barbarity and criminality
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 facing an international arrest warrant,
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facing an international arrest warrant