Al-Qaida Affiliates Respond to Zarqawi's Call
By Evan Kohlmann
Apparently, the Abu Musab al-Zarqawi audio recording released last week featuring greetings to various terrorist leaders around the world did not go unnoticed. The Algerian Salafist Group for Prayer and Combat (GSPC) has issued a written statement on behalf of its leader Abu Musab Abdel Wadoud thanking Zarqawi and Al-Qaida in Iraq for "pleasing our hearts" by killing "the enemy crusaders and their agents." The message added, "we apologize for not returning your greeting directly by audio but our situation in Algeria is different from what is faced in Iraq, Chechnya, or Saudi Arabia because the mujahideen are entrenched in remote places."
Click to view English translation at Globalterroralert.com...