DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahri, has said Britain's handover of security in southern Iraq shows insurgents are gaining the upper hand there.
"Reports from Iraq point to the increasing power of the mujahideen (holy war fighters) and the deteriorating condition of the Americans," Zawahri told an interviewer from al Qaeda's media arm As-Sahab, in a video posted on the Internet on Sunday.
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