In Video, al-Qaida Urges Unification (AP)

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In Video, al-Qaida Urges Unification

By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF
The Associated Press
Thursday, March 22, 2007; 7:40 PM

CAIRO, EGYPT -- In a new video posted Thursday on the Internet,
an al-Qaida militant who escaped from a U.S. prison in Afghanistan
urged Sunni militants in Iraq to join the terror group and claimed
the U.S. military's security plan for Baghdad has failed.

Abu Yahia al-Libi, who broke out of the U.S. prison at Bagram Air
Base north of Kabul in 2005, said it was the sacred duty of all
mujahedeen, or holy warriors, to "stand steadfast together."

He called on militant groups known as Ansar al-Sunnah, the
Islamic Army in Iraq and the Army of the Mujahedeen to "hurry up
and respond to the call of the Quran to become one and ... join
the Islamic State in Iraq," an al-Qaida affiliate in the country.

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The videotape's authenticity could not be independently verified.
It carried the logo of al-Qaida's media production wing, al-Sahab.
The video was also released by IntelCenter, a U.S. government
contractor that monitors al-Qaida messaging.

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