bin Laden posts audio message

[FunBobPants]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/29/binladen.tape/index.html

(CNN) -- Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden mourns the death of his top lieutenant in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, in an audiotape posted Friday on an Islamist Web site.
CNN could not verify the authenticity of the tape, which the network began translating shortly after it was posted.
The audiotape was layered over a split-screen image featuring a still photo of bin Laden on one side and a video of al-Zarqawi on the other. The tape is more than 19 minutes long.
Al-Zarqawi, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, was killed June 7 in a U.S. airstrike north of Baghdad.
On Wednesday the Web site posted a note saying it was expecting a message from bin Laden.
"Coming Soon, Osama Bin Laden new message, offering condolences of the martyr of the (Islamic) nation and the emir of the martyrs, Abu Musab Zarqawi, may God rest his soul," reported the Web site. It often posts messages, statements and videos from al Qaeda.
The Web site posted a nearly identical notification June 22 on behalf of al Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri. The following day, a videotape was aired on the Arab station Al-Jazeera in which al-Zawahiri said he was grieving over the death of al-Zarqawi.
On the tape, al-Zawahiri calls al-Zarqawi a hero and martyr and threatens retribution for his death.
"There isn't a single person who'll be killed that we won't get vengeance for, God willing," he said.

 

[Hobgoblin]

Well, if Osama misses al Zarqawi so much, we can easily re-unite them. All he has to do is show himself.