Something I find interesting in your reply is the dates.
Like:
"Al-Zawahri, shown in the video wearing white robes and a white turban, said a Jan. 13 airstrike in the eastern village of Damadola killed "innocents," and he said the United States had ignored an offer from al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden for a truce."
And:
"The video came in the wake of a Jan. 19 audiotape by bin Laden in which he warned that al-Qaida is preparing attacks in the United States but offered a truce "with fair conditions" to build Iraq and Afghanistan."
It looks to me like Zawahiri did not know that we had not gotten Bin Laden's tape before the strike against Zawahiri.
Maybe Zawahiri has been missing a lot of news lately.
Any one got any theories on this?
Television reception is always poor in the mountains.