Who's In Charge Here?

Osama: Quick, Jihadists, go defend Sudan! (Why is more not made of his attention to Sudan? I read the transcript as an admission that his cause is all but lost in Iraq & an effort to save some stronghold somewhere. Whom do we still have a fair chance of defeating? Where's the UN going to be?)
Zarqawi: No, stay here and fight. I'm not irrelevant! (Anyone notice that Rumsfeld's still here but Osama's DefSec really has been demoted?)
Tim Blair has more.

Update: Someone else reads things as I do. From Tigerhawk (curtsy: ninme):

Less than 2 1/2 years ago, al Qaeda broke the news to the Taliban that it was diverting resources to Iraq so as to humiliate the American “Crusaders.”…Al Qaeda drew a line in the sands of the Sunni Triangle, and the United States Army and Marines walked right across it. First, al Qaeda tried to kill Americans, per bin Laden’s orders. It largely failed. Then al Qaeda went after America’s allies, and succeeded only in turning public opinion against itself in every Muslim country it attacked. After thirty months of battlefield defeats and political embarrassments, bin Laden won’t even mention Iraq in one of his rare public utterances, and he rallies his troops to fight a war where American soldiers aren’t. How humiliating. How delightful.
Al Qaeda has lost in Iraq, and bin Laden is desperate to change the subject.