The No. 2 leader in Al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is dishing out criticism to United States President-Elect, Barack Obama. According to reports, a new audio message has surfaced online where Al-Zawahiri calls Obama a dishonorable man.
Digital Journal — The audio message that also comes with still photos was released by As-Sahab, Al-Qaeda’s official media website.
According to reports, Al-Zawahiri says Obama is “the direct opposite of honorable black Americans” like Malcolm X. The Associated Press also reports he uses a “demeaning racial term” to describe Obama. Other reports indicate that racial term was “house negro.”
The still pictures that play over top of the audio message feature al-Zawahiri, Malcolm X praying and Obama with Jewish leaders.
The message is the first time the Al Qaeda has commented on Obama’s win. They say the President-elect’s plan to move soldiers to Afghanistan will fail because Afghans will fight back.
In the broadcast, Al-Zawahiri also says, “The dogs of Afghanistan have found the flesh of your soldiers to be delicious, so send thousands after thousands of them.”
He also warned Obama, saying, “It appears that you don’t know anything about the Muslim Ummah (community) and its history, and the fate of the traitors who co-operated with the invaders against it, and don’t know anything about the history of Afghanistan and its free and defiant Muslim people.”
Obama has publicly stated his administration’s top priority will be to uproot Al Qaeda and capture its leader, Osama bin Laden.
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Our biggest problem in Afghanistan is with our allies ability to hold their own. They are much more constrained than our forces and the Tali take advantage of that. The tali have been zotted in droves over the past couple of years and most of their ‘successes’ are only PR.