Iraq’s most wanted man, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has been wounded, his al-Qaeda front group announced on its website on Tuesday in a statement that could not be verified.
”Islamic nation, brothers in unity, we pray God that our sheikh, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, recover from the wounds he has sustained,” said the statement issued in the name of his militant organisation’s ”information department”.
”May God heal you, the most dear of the Mujahedin [Islamic fighters]. May God give you strength,” said the al-Qaeda Organisation in the Land of Two Rivers.
”The injuries of our leader are an honour for us and a motivation to tighten the net on the enemies of God and to step up attacks,” read the group’s statement.
Zarqawi is Iraq’s most wanted man with a $25-million United States bounty on his head. His group has claimed a string of devastating attacks, assassinations and kidnappings since Saddam Hussein’s ouster by US-led forces in April 2003. — AFP
