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Al-Zawahiri Vows to Keep Fighting U.S. Monday, November 29, 2004 CAIRO, Egypt — Top Usama bin Laden lieutenant Ayman Al-Zawahiri (search) vowed in a videotape excerpt shown Monday to continue fighting the United States until its policies change. Al-Zawahiri, bin Laden's right-hand man, referred to the recent U.S. presidential election on the tape, shown on Al-Jazeera television. It wasn't clear whether the video was recorded before or after the Nov. 2 vote, when President Bush (search) was re-elected, defeating Sen. John Kerry (search), D-Mass. "The results of the elections do not matter for us," al-Zawahiri said in the three-minute excerpt....

That’s right, they won. And they won big. No, it’s not just that Dems came within 3% of winning a very tough election. That alone is a very real and important accomplishment, but it’s not the key. The real point is that if the Democrats are serious about the long-tem goal of building a broad and enduring democratic majority then getting 51% of the vote is not always the right test of a particular campaign’s success. Sometimes you have to lose an election to build the foundation for later victory. Just ask the Conservative Republicans. They can recite you this...

BAGHDAD, April 2 (AFP) - Seventeen members of the Baghdad division of Iraq's elite Republican Guard have been killed and 35 wounded, its commander told Iraqi television Wednesday, after the United States reported the division had been destroyed.