In a clear sign that the al Qaeda was alive and well, a tape allegedly carrying the voice of Iraq's al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said that retaliatory rocket attacks against Isarel from Lebanon was under the orders of Osama bin Laden. By invoking bin Laden's name, al-Zarqawi has thus boosts United States assertions that it is fighting the al Qaeda in Iraq. al-Zarqawi said that his group had carried out 800 operations so far against "crusader" (read American) forces. The Sunday Mirror said that it has evidence that al Qaeda is recruiting suicide bombers infected with the AIDS virus and other lethal blood diseases such as hepatitis and dengue fever in order to increase its "kill rate" from an explosion. Researchers have found that bones and other human fragments can penetrate the skin of targets 50 meters away. In Afghanistan, terming President Karzai an "American puppet," deposed fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar said that the attacks in that on schools, secular, and other non-Islamic targets will intensify.