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Al-Qaida's Zawahiri Praises Slain Zarqawi in Video
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http://enews.voanews.com/t?ctl=12C1598:3919ACA He called Zarqawi
the prince of martyrs and said that no member of al-Qaida would die
without avenging him Al-Qaida's number two leader has appeared in a
video praising Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq
killed on June seventh by a U.S. air strike.

Ayman al-Zawahiri's video aired Friday on Al Jazeera.

In it, Zawahiri appeared in front of a portrait of Zarqawi. He called
Zarqawi the prince of martyrs and said that no member of al-Qaida
would die without avenging him.

He also criticized several Iraqi government officials and the U.S.
Ambassador to Iraq.

Zawahiri did not mention Zarqawi's successor as leader of al-Qaida in
Iraq, Abu Hamza al-Muhajer. The omission may mean the tape was made
before Muhajer was appointed or that Zawahiri does not endorse him.

Zawahiri, along with al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden, is thought to be
hiding somewhere along the rugged border dividing Afghanistan and
Pakistan.

 


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