Zawahiri upset at loss of al Libi

Reuters:

Al Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri vowed revenge for the killing of a top group commander in a suspected U.S. attack in Pakistan, in a video posted on the Internet on Wednesday.

"No chief of ours had died of a natural death, nor has our blood been spilled without a response," Zawahri said in the video posted on an Islamist Web site, referring to the killing of Abu Laith al-Libi.

Libi, considered as one of Osama bin Laden's top lieutenants in Afghanistan, was killed in an suspected U.S. missile strike that killed up to 13 foreign militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan border area in late January.

"If one of our chiefs passes, another arises in his place," Zawahri said, without making a specific threat.

"So seek help O Americans and agents of Americans ... from those seeking a way out ... They will be of no help to you," he said, referring to Muslim clerics who have criticized jihadist militants.

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O Zawahiri why are you hiding in a cave rather than calling a news conference to make your pronouncements? Could it be you fear being on the receiving end of a Hellfire missile to before you are introduced to the other hellfire? O Zawahiri why cower in your crude video studio when you can walk the streets of Iraq and Afghanistan where you claim you are winning?

It is nice to see that you will be naming the next target for an unnatural death.

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