Islamist Web Site Indicates Top Insurgent Is Badly Wounded

May 24, 2005
By JOHN F. BURNS and TERENCE NEILAN

BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 24 - An Internet site used by the group Al Qaeda in Iraq said today that its leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, had been wounded, and it asked for Muslims to pray for his recovery.

"Let everybody know that the injury of our leader is an honor, and causes us to surround our enemy tighter," the statement said, in a translation by the Search for International Terrorist Entities Institute in Washington, which monitors Islamic Web sites.