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The new security measures are being taken as ABC News learns that al Qaeda Web sites have posted messages saying yet another tape is about to be released — this one from al Qaeda's No. 2 man, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who apparently escaped a missile attack that targeted him in Pakistan a week ago. The Web sites say he will mourn his colleagues who were killed in that attack.
Originally posted by deltaboy
So its true that we killed some of his colleagues. And he is willing to make a tape to mourn them. Wow.
Originally posted by Souljah
Now Thats a Great Point!
Why would he do that - why would he reveal his Dead Colleagues?
That's just not Logical.
Originally posted by Souljah
Or it could be just Another Way of trying to Persuade the People that US did not get any wrong Intel for this Attack.
First they said they killed Zawahiri.
Then they said they didn't - but they killed his Aides, some Master Bombmaker, and now he also Mourning his Dead Comrades?
CAIRO, Egypt - An audiotape from al-Qaida's second in command, Ayman al-Zawahri, was posted Friday on an Islamic Web site in which he read a poem praising "martyrs of holy war" in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.
The tape made no mention of a Jan. 13 U.S. airstrike in Pakistan that was targeting al-Zawahri and killed four al-Qaida leaders.
The CIA verified the voice as al-Zawahri following a technical analysis, an agency official said.
It was unclear when the recording was made, although the poem referred to Afghanistan martyrs in the period during Northern Alliance action against the Taliban that followed the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, the CIA official said.
Officials at two U.S. counterterror agencies said the recording does not appear to have been made recently and may even date back years.