ZARQAWI BYPASSES AL-JAZEERA, UPLOADS VIDEO TO YOUTUBE

Al Qaeda leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi appeared in a rare vidoe on Tuesday to denounce the new government as an American puppet designed to help Washington pull out of its woes in the country.  More significantly, unlike his mentor Osama bin Laden, Zarqawi side-stepped the prominent Arabic language news channel Al-jazeera and uploaded his video directly to the internet video site You Tube, whose popularity has been exploding recently.  An unconfirmed rumor circulating the Internet's 'blogosphere' states that Zarqawi will soon be setting up his own MySpace account.

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