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AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI, long al-Qaeda's second-in-command, has delivered his first public comments on the killing of Osama bin Laden, saying in a video eulogy online that bin Laden had ''terrified America in his life'' and ''will continue to terrify it after his death''.
The 28-minute video, The Noble Knight Dismounted, begins with old footage of Zawahiri and bin Laden seated together in a mountainous setting before cutting to Zawahiri alone, dressed in white and seated with a rifle in front of a dark background. He alternates between poetry and verse eulogising bin Laden, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks jihadist communications and translated the video.
Zawahiri heaped praise on the slain terrorist leader, calling him ''the noble emir'' and a ''heroic fighter'' before vowing to continue bin Laden's efforts to ''expel the invaders from the land of Islam''.
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