Cairo (Egypt): Al-Jazeera TV aired an audiotape on Thursday that is said was the first released by the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, who succeeded the militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
In the tape, Abu Hamza al-Muhajer said he was confident that victory will be achieved and called on all Mujahedeen to unite on the battlefield, the station reported.
It played a brief excerpt from the tape, in which the speaker said, ''Our enemy has unified its ranks against us. Isn't it time to get together, worshippers of God?"
Al-Muhajer, a previously unknown militant, became the leader of Iraq's most feared insurgent group after al-Zarqawi was killed in a US airstrike in June.
US officials say they believe al-Muhajer is an Egyptian.
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