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BAGHDAD (AP) – Al Qaeda’s front group in Iraq reaffirmed its support Monday for the terror network’s second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahri, a week after U.S. commandos killed Usama bin Laden.

Al Qaeda has not yet announced a successor and there is some uncertainty about whether al-Zawahri will indeed take over for bin Laden.

In a statement posted on an insurgent website Monday, the Islamic State of Iraq also taunted President Barack Obama as “the rat in the black house” and said he should remain fearful of bin Laden’s promise to threaten the United States.

“The martyrdom of the sheik (bin Laden) will increase the determination and steadfastness among his brotherly mujahideen,” read the statement. “To our brothers in Al Qaeda, first among them sheik Ayman al-Zawahri and his brothers in the leadership of the organization, may God reward you and grant you patience for this loss.”

The statement amounts to an official letter of condolence for bin Laden, who was killed in a U.S. strike last week on his compound in northern Pakistan. It was signed by Abu Bakr al-Husseini al-Baghdadi, a pseudonym for the anonymous new leader of Al Qaeda’s front group in Iraq.

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