Zarqawi, bin Laden in competing messages (The Three Stooges Return)

"You can call it the Battle of the Bands, or, Battle of the Terrorist Groups.

Less than 36 hours after Aljazeera aired an audiotape of Osama bin Laden proclaiming that Al Qaida was fighting a US Crusader war against Muslim nations, Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab Al Zarqawi released the first ever video speech also declaring that Iraq was a battleground against the US Crusader war.

The video of Zarqawi showed him sitting with aides over a highly detailed map of Iraqi territories as they appeared to be coordinating a future attack. They were discussing strategy. The camera zooms in on the map several times.

We also see Zarqawi aiming a rifle in the desert."
TAI