Zarqawi confirms Al-Q link

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Zarqawi confirms Al-Q link DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iraq-based group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has pledged allegiance to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda group in a move it said aimed to increase the "ire of infidels and the fear of the enemies of Islam". Washington has long accused Zarqawi's Tawhid and Jihad Group of links to al Qaeda. But a statement posted on the Internet on Sunday was the group's first public admission of ties to the network behind the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. "With the advent of the month of Ramadan and the need for Muslims to unify ranks in the face of the enemy... We announce that the Tawhid and Jihad Group, its prince and soldiers, have pledged allegiance to the sheikh of the mujahideen (holy fighters) Osama bin Laden," said the statement dated Sunday. "Sheikh Abu Musab was in contact with the brothers in al Qaeda for eight months, exchanging points of view, then contact was interrupted only to be restored again and the brothers in al Qaeda understood Tawhid and Jihad Group's strategy in (Iraq)," said the statement, which was posted on several websites often used by militants. ----------------- What say you all?