Qaeda's Zawahri appears in new tape on Internet

Note: Zawahri is not number 2, he is number 1. bin Laden is a
figurehead.
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Qaeda's Zawahri appears in new tape on Internet

Al Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri appeared in a videotape
posted on the Internet on Friday, the second recording since he was
reported to have been killed or wounded in Pakistan last month.

The video posted on a Web site often used by al Qaeda showed Zawahri
in white robes and white turban in front of a green backdrop, praising
Abu Khabab al-Masri and three other militants killed in Pakistan's
border region in July.

It was not clear when the tape was recorded but it was the second
audio or video tape of Zawahri to appear since he himself was reported
to have been killed or wounded in a suspected U.S. missile strike in
Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal region.

Earlier this month, an English-language audio tape purportedly made by
Zawahri in which he attacked Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was
dropped off at an office of Pakistan's ARY One television channel.

U.S. television network CBS News in a report early in August cited an
intercepted letter from Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud
requesting a doctor be sent to treat the wounded Zawahri.

The whereabouts of Zawahri and al Qaeda leader bin Laden have not been
known since U.S.-led forces launched a hunt for them in Afghanistan
after the al Qaeda attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001.

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