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The wait may finally be over.

Back in December, al Qaeda's No.2 Ayman al-Zawahiri announced that he was taking questions from the viewers of his Web videos. The sheikh apparently received over 2,000 questions and the IntelCenter monitoring service now expects the first of his video replies within the week. Watch this space for more analysis when this "Web 2.0" mass murderer addresses his public.

UPDATE: The first installment is in. Zawahiri says al Qaeda doesn't kill innocent people. The full transcript is available as a pdf here, thanks to Laura Mansfield.