It is official

The guy who cuts off heads on camera and slaughters Iraqi civilians is now officially the deputy of the guy who caused planes to be flown into buildings.

In an audiotape broadcast Monday by Arabic-language 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.

It is always so nice to hear from OBL.