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He is Eulogizing the martyr death of bin Laden as Noble Knight Dismounted. Zawahri wasdressed in white and seated with a rifle.The euology included five poems of praise for Bin Laden, describing him alternately as modest, noble and shrewd commander and the vanguard of jihad (holy war) against the Communists and then the Crusaders, his campaign in the Afghan war against the Soviets in the 1980s and the Sept 11, 2011 attacks against the United States. View next Al-Qaeda's would be new leader Ayman al-Zawahri had called on Muslims to press ahead with fighting "crusaders".