Al-Qaida leader in Iraq calls for continued jihad

In the 24-minute tape, Abu Omaral-Baghdadi said the parliamentary election and its results meantnothing for the mujahideen, or holy fighters, and that the nextgovernment would be no different from the previous one.

"Weannounce that the elections outcome means nothing to us ... we willcontinue chasing the (American) occupier and his agents until we purifythe land from their filth," he said in the tape.