Al-Qaida's No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri has vowed to avenge the US
killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of the terror network in
Iraq.
"Yes (George W. Bush) Bush, there isn't a single person who will
be killed that we won't get vengeance for, God willing," al-Zawahri
said in a videotape aired by the al-Jazeera television on
Friday.
Al-Zawahri also hailed al-Zarqawi as a martyr.
"We express our condolences to the Muslim nation on one of its
greatest soldiers," al-Zawahri said.
Al-Zarqawi was killed in a US air raid near the Iraqi capital of
Baghdad on June 7.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered on Friday an all-out
curfew in Baghdad from Friday afternoon until Saturday morning,
Iraqi state television reported.
The curfew takes effect as of 2:00 p.m. (1000 GMT) Friday until
6:00 a.m. Saturday (0200 GMT), the television said.
The government had already imposed a traffic ban in the capital
from 11:00 a.m. (0700 GMT) to 3:00 p.m. (1100 GMT) on Friday.
(Xinhua News Agency June 24, 2006)
