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Bin Laden praises al-Zarqawi in new audiotape



Cairo, June 30 (Xinhua) Osama bin Laden praised the slain leader of Iraq's Al Qaeda wing Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as 'the lion of holy war', according to a Website audiotape released Friday.

The 19-minute, 32-second tape shows a split-screen image with a still picture of bin Laden on one side and footage showing al-Zarqawi meeting with his subordinates on the other.

'Our Islamic nation was surprised to find its knight, the lion of jihad, the man of determination and will, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, killed in a shameful American raid,' said the voice purportedly from bin Laden.

'We hope to god he accepts him as a martyr,' he said.

The Jordanian-born militant was killed June 7 in a US air strike northeast of Baghdad.

In the message, bin Laden demanded US President George W. Bush hand over the body of al-Zarqawi to his family.

This was the fourth message put out this year by bin Laden. New video images of him have not appeared since October 2004. The authenticity of the videotape could not be immediately confirmed and US intelligence officials said tests are being conducted.

Earlier this month, Al Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri vowed vengeance against the US for al-Zarqawi's death.



© 2006 Xinhua