Bin Laden endorses al-Zarqawi as deputy

Tuesday, December 28, 2004

CAIRO, Egypt -- In an audiotape broadcast Monday by Al-Jazeera satellite television, a man purported to be Osama bin Laden endorsed Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi as his deputy in Iraq and called for a boycott of next month's elections there.

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