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Zarqawi Releases Video Tape (Updated)By Bill Roggio
Here is a link to the full video, available for download, courtesy of Bare Knuckle Politics Walid Phares comments at MSNBC on Zarqawi's videotape [paraphrased]: The decision on Iraq’s new PM is obviously not what Zarqawi wanted... this is the third event in 3 days and linked strategically if not logistically. Coordination is required on when to release tapes – each event takes time to prepare – the rumors of splits put pressure on him to end rumors – we will know more soon about Zarqawi's real status in iraq – he tried to provoke iraq political collapse and failed – now he wants a caliphate after US leaves – we are still waiting for someone to take responsibility for Egypt – so we’ll see if there are more events. Zarqawi's tape follows yesterday's multiple bombings of a scubadiving resort in Dahab, Egypt, and this weekend's release "State of Jihad" audiotape from Osama bin Laden. The full transcript is not yet available, but MSNBC provides an excerpt: “Your mujahideen sons were able to confront the most ferocious of crusader campaigns on a Muslim state. They have stood in the face of this onslaught for three years.” Reuters provides an additional quote: "When the crusader enemy entered Iraq, he intended to control the Islamic nation and supported the Zionist state." Al Jazeera quotes Zarqawi as saying: "By God, America will be defeated in Iraq."
The video contains three scenes of Zarqawi in various different settings: "In the video, al-Zarqawi, who wears a beard and mustache, sat dressed in black, with an ammunition vest. An automatic rifle was propped against the wall to his right. He wore a black scarf wrapped on his head and around his neck, while the black flag of his group, al-Qaida in Iraq, was superimposed on the screen. In another scene, he was shown sitting on the floor with four other men, all wearing black masks. In a third scene, al-Zarqawi could be seen in a desert, holding a heavy automatic rifle as if ready to fire." There has been specualtion Zarqawi is no longer the political leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. In February, the Mujahideen Shura Council appointed Abdullah Rashid al-Baghdadi its leader and Zarqawi stopped releasing statements.
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Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaeda's commander in Iraq, has released "the first [videotape] to contain a 'message'... U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News." The tape is titled 