WASHINGTON, April 26 (UPI) -- The leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has issued an online video in which he boasts of having new missiles, soon to be used.
A CIA spokesman told CNN that technical analysis of the tape confirmed it was Zarqawi, and that it appeared the video was made last Friday.
The most wanted man in Iraq denounced Iraq's ongoing political process in the video.
"The enemy is failing, and they are trying to attract two kinds of people to this silly play of parliament," he said. "The majority of those seats are for the Shiites and the liberal Kurds and liberal Sunnis, so we know that the rule will always be for the tyrants and apostates."
One of the masked fighters also shown in the video said insurgents have developed two missiles each with a 25-mile range. He said they carry a payload of 110 pounds that is capable of penetrating armor and that they plan to use the missiles soon.
A U.S. counterterrorism official told CNN Zarqawi's words were "a lot of jihadist bravado."
