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Zarqawi denounces Saudi “tyrants” in tape -Web

Iraq’s al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi denounced Saudi Arabia’s rulers as despots allowing Westerners to loot the riches of Islam’s birthplace, in an Internet audio tape attributed to him on Tuesday. “The (Saudi) tyrants are traitors to the nation and its religion, who have waged war against the mujahideen and allowed the Crusaders into the peninsula of Prophet Mohammad to loot its wealth and spread corruption,” said the speaker, who sounded like Zarqawi, on the tape posted on an Islamist Web site.Full Story