Bin Laden misses his war criminal buddy Zarqawi

AP/Washington Post:

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.

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Isn't strange that the media never describes war criminals like Zarqawi and bin Laden as war criminals. I guess they don't want to be too judgemental about people who deliberately target non combatants in violation of the Geneva Convention which they seem to think the US is obligate to honor against an enemy who they do not seem to think should honor it. BTW, we just saw al Qaeda's policy on POW's and torture in the last few days with their mutilation of two US soldiers. It is not really a reciprocal agreement is it?

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