Al-Qaeda's deputy leader has dismissed the US president's plan to send thousands more soldiers to Iraq, challenging him to send "the entire army", a group that tracks al-Qaeda messages said on Monday.

Ayman al-Zawahiri vowed that al-Qaeda's supporters will defeat the US in the new videotape intercepted by the Washington based SITE Institute.

In the video, al-Zawahiri said it was the "duty" of all Muslims to take up arms against Islam's enemies, and said the US strategy for Iraq outlined by George Bush, the US president, would fail.

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[If al-Qaeda were to find a new copious oil field in Iraq, the US government would be more than happy to send a fleet and army to liberate it from the evil Muslims.]