Al-Jazeera TV broadcast an audiotape Thursday that was said to be the first released by the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, who succeeded the militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. In the tape, Abu Hamza al-Muhajer said he was confident that victory will be achieved and called on all mujahedeen to unite on the battlefield, the station reported.

It played a brief excerpt from the tape, in which the speaker said, “Our enemy has unified its ranks against us. Isn’t it time to get together, worshippers of God?”

Al-Muhajer, a previously unknown militant, became the leader of Iraq’s most feared insurgent group after al-Zarqawi was killed in a U.S. airstrike in June. U.S. officials say they believe al-Muhajer is an Egyptian.

yahoo.com

 Yeah, and the Egyptians said a few months back that old boy’s in JAIL, and has been for years! I always know that when a story has the words ‘al Zarqawi’ in it it is going to be a)amusing, and b)total crap.

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