Enemy says they will miss Zarqawi, sorta

AP:

A key insurgency leader in Iraq said the U.S. killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was a "great loss," but one that will strengthen the militants' determination, according to an audio tape broadcast Friday.

The Al-Jazeera network said the voice on the tape was that of Abu Abdullah Rashid al-Baghdadi, the head of the Mujahedeen Shura Council, which groups five Iraqi insurgent organizations including al-Qaida in Iraq. But the authenticity of the tape couldn't immediately be verified.

The tape appeared to be an attempt to rally support for the insurgents after last week's killing of al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq who died when U.S. forces bombed the house north of Baghdad where he was meeting his advisers.

Significantly, the speaker does not mention the man believed chosen to replace al-Zarqawi, Abu Hamza al-Muhajer. There is considerable debate over his identity: The U.S. military says al-Muhajer is Abu Ayyub al-Masri, others are less certain and one terror expert thinks al-Masri does not exist.

But the conspicuous absence of any pledge of allegiance to al-Mujaher suggests al-Baghdadi does not support him.

"This is a message to the enemies of God, the crusaders, the rejectionists and the renegades," the voice says, referring respectively the US-led forces, the Shiites, and the Sunnis in the Iraqi government.

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Really now, how does he expect to get a long after he insults every one? These guys just have very poor people skills.