Al-Qaida number two hails Zarqawi as 'martyr'

In a video broadcast tonight, al-Qaida’s deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri hailed the slain terrorist leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, as a soldier, an Islamic cleric and a prince of martyrs.

Al-Zawahri delivered the tribute in a new video aired on the Qatari-based TV channel Al-Jazeera.