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Al-Qaeda’s Zawahiri Pledges Allegiance to New Taliban Chief Amid Rivalry

Thursday 13 August 2015
Al-Qaeda’s Zawahiri Pledges Allegiance to New Taliban Chief Amid Rivalry

Alwaght- Al-Qaeda’s  Ayman al-Zawahiri has pledged the terrorist group's allegiance to new Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour in an audio recording released Thursday.

"As emir of Al-Qaeda, I pledge to you our allegiance, following the path of Sheikh (Osama) bin Laden and his brothers in their allegiance to Mullah Omar," Zawahiri said, referring to the former Al-Qaeda chief and to the longtime Taliban chief whose death was confirmed last month.
  
The statement came amid a bitter struggle within the Taliban over Mansour's leadership.
  
The recording was featured in a video that opens with images of bin Laden -- who was killed by US special forces in Pakistan in 2011 -- pledging allegiance to Omar.
  
The recording then plays over a picture of Zawahiri, who is believed to be in hiding in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region. He says that the so called "Islamic emirate" established by the Taliban in Afghanistan was the "first legitimate emirate after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, and there is no legitimate emirate in the world apart from it."
  
  
Mansour was announced as the new Taliban chief on July 31, after the terrorist movement confirmed the death of Omar, who led insurgency for some 20 years.

Zawahiri's pledge also comes as Al-Qaeda faces a growing rivalry with the ISIS terrorist group.

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