'Tell me why Muslims hate you'

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Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahiri, says in a videotape aired Friday that he grieves over the death of al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The video was aired on the Arabic-language station Al-Jazeera. CNN could not independently confirm the authenticity of the tape. In the tape, al-Zawahiri is wearing a black turban, a sign of mourning, and he speaks from in front of a red backdrop featuring a picture of a smiling al-Zarqawi.

"May God rest his soul and allow him to reside in his vast heavens, and make his martyrdom a light for the allies of God and fire and destruction for the enemies of God, the crusaders and their treacherous agents and the charlatans who deal in religion," al-Zawahiri says. "There isn't a single person who'll be killed that we won't get vengeance for, God willing."

'Tell me why Muslims hate you'
"Tell me how your drunkard and runaway soldiers get killed; tell me how many of you were killed in reality and how much did your economy really lose and how the morale of your soldiers is down. And not only that, but tell me why Muslims hate you so much, and also why you are hated so much by your innocent victims all over the world," he says.






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