var items = new Array (new ImageMetaData('A U.S. soldier at a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq Thursday, June 15, 2006 stands by a photograph that purports to show Abu Ayyub al-Masri who is allegedly the man claiming to be the new al-Qaida in Iraq leader and apparently the same person as a man identified by the nom de guerre Abu Hamza al-Muhajer, according to the U.S. Military, who has claimed to have succeeded Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and vowed to avenge him in threatening web statements in recent days. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)','http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Photos/060615/060615_newleader_hmed_10a.jpg','12:46 p.m. ET, 6/15/06','Karim Kadim / AP','AP',13343007));