Posted on 06/29/2006 7:58:38 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
CAIRO, Egypt - Osama bin Laden praised slain al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as the "lion of holy war" in a new videotape posted on the Internet on Friday.
The 19-minute message shows an old still photo of bin Laden in a split-screen next to images of al-Zarqawi taken from a previous video. A voice resembling bin Laden's narrates a tribute to the Jordanian-born militant, who was killed in a June 7 airstrike northeast of Baghdad.
"Our Islamic nation was surprised to find its knight, the lion of jihad (holy war), the man of determination and will, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, killed in a shameful American raid," bin Laden said.
It was the fourth message put out this year by al-Qaida leader bin Laden. All have featured his voice in audiotapes. New video images of him have not appeared since October 2004.
I've been living under a rock for a couple of days: Have they really buried the pig in an unmarked grave?
:-)
He's just cat fur now.
I've got your Lion right here!!!
That's an old one 01/26/06.
Is he related to Osama bin Lyin??
Pray for W and Our Troops
I don't care if he receives The Nobel Peace Price, appears on the cover of Time Magazine as Person Of The year or if Time Warner spends 200 million on a film depicting his life as directed by Oliver Stone.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was a goat humping be-header of kidnapped victems.
If his head is ever offered on E-Bay, I'm bidding.
article Update
Bin Laden hails slain Zarqawi as 'lion'
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060630/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_bin_laden
LEE KEATH, Associated Press Writer
CAIRO, Egypt - Osama bin Laden praised slain al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as the "lion of holy war" in a new videotape posted on the Internet on Friday.
The 19-minute message shows an old still photo of bin Laden in a split-screen next to images of al-Zarqawi taken from a previous video. A voice resembling bin Laden's narrates a tribute to the Jordanian-born militant, who was killed in a June 7, airstrike northeast of Baghdad.
"Our Islamic nation was surprised to find its knight, the lion of jihad (holy war), the man of determination and will, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, killed in a shameful American raid," bin Laden said.
It was the fourth message put out this year by al-Qaida leader bin Laden. All have featured his voice in audiotapes. New video images of him have not appeared since October 2004.
The authenticity of the video could not be immediately confirmed. It bore the logo of As-Sahab, the al-Qaida production branch that releases all its messages, and was posted on an Islamic Web forum where militants often post messages. Typically, the CIA does a technical analysis to determine whether the speaker is who the tape claims and the National Counterterrorism Center analyzes the message's contents.
In the tape, bin Laden's voice sounded breathy and fatigued at times.
"Even if we lost one of our greatest knights and and princes, we are happy that we have found a symbol for our great Islamic nations, one that the mujahedeen will remember and praise in poetry and in stories secretly and aloud," bin Laden said.
A similar video tribute was released a week ago by bin Laden's deputy, Egyptian-born Ayman al-Zawahri, who did appear personally in the video, shown speaking to the camera.
The videos appear to be part of an attempt by al-Qaida's central leadership to tout their connection to al-Zarqawi, who emerged as a hero among Islamic extremists with his dramatic attacks against Shiites and Westerners in Iraq.
Al-Zarqaw swore loyalty to bin Laden but is believed to have had sometimes rocky ties with al-Qaida's core leadership, based in the Afghan-Pakistani border region.
In July 2005, bin Laden's deputy reportedly wrote a letter to al-Zarqawi criticizing his attacks on Iraqi Shiite mosques and civilians, saying they hurt the mujahedeen's image. The al-Qaida deputy also asked al-Zarqawi for money, according to the U.S. military, which said it intercepted the message.
Al-Zarqawi apparently brushed off the criticism as he continued to attack Shiites, a strategy intended to spark a Sunni-Shiite civil war.
Any tension between al-Zarqawi and al-Qaida's command appeared to have faded by early 2006, because al-Zawahri has now issued three videotapes this year in which he effusively praises al-Zarqawi.
Hercules wore the lion skin...therefore, WE are HERCULES.
I like that
bttt
That's not it, al-Jazeera messed up.
That message is from Jan. 19, 2006.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4628932.stm
Lion meat, perhaps...
Yeah, he's a lion alright. Lyin' on the ground dead.
I was going to post the latest picture of the "Prince of Martyrs" to remind everyone of his condition, but manners got the best of me so I will just post the link.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/nationworld/dailyimages/061206photo.jpg
Whoah! GREAT cartoon!
Bin Laden sounds like a Kos kid.
We are "raping and torturing", yada, yada. The war is being prolonged for business interests (defense contractors).
It's official, there is no difference between them now.
Jack Murtha, Kos, the Dummies, JF'n Kerry, Code Pink....the list goes on.
I can't understand the bitterness that clouds their thought and makes them so delusional. They side with our enemy that beheads people and trains children to strap bombs to their bodies.
All over a couple of lost elections? Because of their loss of power?
What is their rationale? Better yet, where are their souls?
These are such troubling times with the enemy so entrenched within our country.
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