Al-Qaeda's chief in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, stated in an audio tape appeared in an Islamist website that last month's rocket attack had been launched at Israel from Lebanon "following the instructions" of Osama bin Laden.
"The rocket firing at the ancestors of monkeys and pigs from the south of Lebanon was only the start of a blessed in-depth strike against the Zionist enemy (...). All that was on the instructions of the sheikh of the mujahedeen, Osama bin Laden, may God preserve him," said the voice attributed to the Jordanian born militant.
"This commendable feat came in application by the mujahedeen of the oath by fighter sheikh Osama bin Laden, emir of the al-Qaeda network, may God preserve him."
