Maybe wrongly, but I found the background more chilling than the message.
TERRORISM: GRAPHIC CHANGE TO AL-QAEDA VIDEO
Dubai, 27 July (AKI) - The latest video of Ayman al-Zawahiri, broadcast on Thursday by the al-Jazeera network, was put together by the al-Sahab production house which has produced all the propaganda videos by the al-Qaeda leadership, but there has been a dramatic change of graphics. Cybernauts who are frequent visitors to radical Islamist forums are asking what hidden message lies in the details of this latest film. For the first time al-Zawahiri appears against a backdrop of four photos, of which only three are visible, with studio lighting. In the past he has usually been seen against a plain dark background.
The first photo, on the left of the al-Qaeda number two, shows Sheikh Abu Hafs al-Masri, who was killed in the US bombing campaign on Afghanistan in late 2001. The second, in a central position, shows the World Trade Centre twin towers in flames, while the third, on al-Zawahiri's right, shows a young Mohammad Atta, head of the 19 suicide bombers who carried out the 11 September, 2001 attacks.
One internet forum member asked why they had chosen those three photos, but no one has provided a coherent answer.
Abu Hads al-Masri is also the name of a European cell of al-Qaeda, while the other two photos are a clear visual reference to the activities of the terror network in the United States.
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.325284578&par=0
There's a larger photo of Zawahiri in his latest tape here:
http://www.tajdeed.org.uk/forums/showthread.php?s=aece0bd7c049315b8499dd278d704a0f&threadid=43915
Links to tape:
This tape struggling Sheikh Ayman Al-Zawahri kept God
http://www.9q9q.net/up2/index.php?f=66YXZWGE
http://www2.rapidupload.com/d.php?file=dl&filepath=1629
http://www.uploading.com/?get=4766V3R1