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...believe the relationship was strained. Al-Zarqawi's jihad was more rigidly uncompromising than bin Laden's: it wasn't enough to kill Westerners, it was just as important to slaughter fellow Arabs who followed a different form of Islam. In Afghanistan and Pakistan, bin Laden and al-Zawahiri had been suspicious of Shi'ites but learned to work with them. In al-Zarqawi's eyes, Iraq's Shi'ites were apostates because their practice of Islam differs from the extreme Wahhabist version he embraced. For that, they deserved even more gruesome punishment than nonbelievers. Fighters from his inner circle...
...time he died, al-Zarqawi had not only rewritten the history of the insurgency in Iraq but also bequeathed to the world a deadly new type of terrorist. While Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri issued impotent threats from their hideouts, al-Zarqawi got his hands bloody in Iraq, turning it into the holy war's primary battlefield. He became the jihad's eminent fighter-superstar, embracing and embellishing his infamy with brazen declarations and brutal atrocities--he personally decapitated American Nicholas Berg on videotape, sent scores of suicide bombers to their doom, killed fellow Muslims and attacked their...
...similar exchange had occurred in March when al-Qaeda's Number 2, Ayman Zawahiri, released his own tape criticizing Hamas's decision to enter politics and warning it never to make peace with Israel. That time, Hamas leader Khaled Meshal responded that Hamas had its own vision and always acted in the Palestinian national interest - it didn't need al Qaeda's advice. Zawahiri had also criticized the dominant Islamist group of his home country - the Muslim Brotherhood - for its participation in Egypt's recent elections...
...Wednesday, just as President Bush was visiting Afghanistan and declaring that "I am confident [bin Laden] will be brought to justice," Pakistan announced that 45 Qaeda-aligned militants had been killed in a raid in the tribal badlands of Waziristan - where bin Laden and his chief lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahiri, are believed to be operating. Announcements of victories against al-Qaeda highlight the primary reason the Bush Administration has been inclined to avoid confronting Musharraf over concerns ranging from democracy in Pakistan to the fact that its top nuclear scientist, A.Q. Khan, was revealed in 2004 to have been running...
...Some U.S. counter-terrorism officials reportedly believed they had Zawahiri in their sights two weeks ago as he supposedly attended a dinner in a village in Pakistan's tribal region of Bajaur north of Peshawar. Zawahiri's tape provides no useful clues as to whether he had actually been in the vicinity that day or not. But the attack showed how badly the U.S. wants to bring down the taunting terrorist...