Qaeda announces Zarqawi successor
RAW STORY
Published:
Monday June 12, 2006
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 An apparent al Qaeda website announced the successor to Abu Musa'ab al-Zarqawi today, a name different than the one U.S. military forces had cited last week. Abu Hamza al-Muhajir was described as "hoping to continue what Abu Musa'ab has started," ABC NEWS reports Monday.
"According to a translation by the ABC News bureau in Baghdad of the posting by the media department for the Mujahideen Shura Council in Iraq, 'The word of the Mujahideen Shura Council has gathered in one word to choose sheik Abi Hamza Al-Muhajir to be the successor for the deceased sheik Abu Musa'ab Zarqawi to head al Qaeda.'"
"Sheik Abi Hamza Al-Muhajir, is a good brother, ex-member in Jihad with a lot of religious information. We ask God to lead him and us to the right path, and to accomplish what sheik Zarqawi has started."
According to Reuters, "Muhajir, little known in the West, was not among the names that al Qaeda experts had expected as Zarqawi's likely successor."
No further information is as yet available. The report was posted on ABC News' blog.
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