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Qaida's Zawahiri praises bin Laden's loyalty, morals

By REUTERS

NOVEMBER 16, 2011 00:42

DUBAI - Al Qaida has released a video message in which the group's leader, Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahiri, heaps praise on his predecessor Osama bin Laden for his "superior morals" and loyalty to his comrades.

In the half-hour tape titled "Days with the imam, Part One" a bespectacled Zawahiri, who became the leader of al Qaida in June after bin Laden's killing, described the network's founder as noble, generous and good.

"I had the honor of the companionship of that man for long periods in travel and in different circumstances," said Zawahiri, who met bin Laden in Pakistan in the mid-1980s when both were supporting guerrillas fighting Soviet forces in Afghanistan.

"Sheikh Osama would feel great sadness if he felt that his brothers in the path of jihad had been oppressed or had not reached their rightful goal," said Zawahiri. "That man was very loyal to his brothers and he was intent on remembering them in virtue and praising their way."

Zawahiri was bin Laden's lieutenant and the brains behind much of al Qaida's strategy for many years

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