| A voice recording, said to be that of suspected al-Qaeda commander Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, released to mark the third anniversary of the September 11 attacks in the United States, said Iraq's US-backed premier was the militant network's number one target. "The traitor (Iyad) Allawi is our main target," said the audiotape, posted on the Islamist website (http://zarqawi911.notlong.com) in the name of Zarqawi's Tawhid wal Jihad (Unity and Holy War) group. "Await the Angel of Death." As in previous death threats against the hawkish Iraqi premier, the voice mocked Allawi's past links with the US intelligence services. "You may have the support of the Christians, but we have on our side (the true) God who knows how to make good his theats." |