Islamists Vow to Carry on Jihad Until Islamic Rule is Back on Earth

(AP) – A recording purportedly made by the mastermind of bombings and kidnappings in Iraq threatened to assassinate Iraq’s interim prime minister and fight the Americans “until Islamic rule is back on Earth.” The audio recording was found Wednesday on a Web site that serves as a clearinghouse of Islamic extremist statements. It is supposedly from Jordanian-born terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, whose network has been targeted by two U.S. airstrikes since Saturday. Al-Zarqawi’s group, Monotheism and Jihad, claimed responsibility for the beheading of American hostage Nicholas Berg and Kim Sun-il, a South Korean whose decapitated body was found Tuesday evening between Baghdad and Fallujah. …In the audiotape, the speaker thought to be al-Zarqawi told Iraq ‘s interim prime minister, Iyad Allawi, that “we will continue the game with you until the end.” The speaker said “we will not get bored” until “we make you drink from the same glass” as Izzadine Saleem, the Iraqi governing Council president killed last month in a car-bombing claimed at al-Zarqawi’s group. “We will carry on our jihad against the Western infidel and the Arab apostate until Islamic rule is back on earth,” the voice said.