The video posted on a Web site often used by al Qaeda
showed Zawahri in white robes and white turban in front of a
green backdrop, praising Abu Khabab al-Masri and three other
militants killed in Pakistan's border region in July.
It was not clear when the tape was recorded but it was the
second audio or video tape of Zawahri to appear since he
himself was reported to have been killed or wounded in a
suspected U.S. missile strike in Pakistan's South Waziristan
tribal region.
Earlier this month, an English-language audio tape
purportedly made by Zawahri in which he attacked Pakistani
President Pervez Musharraf was dropped off at an office of
Pakistan's ARY One television channel.
U.S. television network CBS News in a report early in
August cited an intercepted letter from Pakistani Taliban chief
Baitullah Mehsud requesting a doctor be sent to treat the
wounded Zawahri.
The whereabouts of Zawahri and al Qaeda leader bin Laden
have not been known since U.S.-led forces launched a hunt for
them in Afghanistan after the al Qaeda attacks on the United
States on September 11, 2001.
(Reporting by Summer Said; editing by Tony Austin)
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