Regis Philbin
Nov 19th, 2008, 07:10 PM
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/19/mideast/qaeda.php
Qaeda greets Obama victory with an insult
By Scott Shane and Mark Mazzetti
Published: November 19, 2008
WASHINGTON: In Al Qaeda's first response to the American election, Osama bin Laden's top deputy condemned President-elect Barack Obama as a "house Negro" who will continue a campaign against Islam begun by President George W. Bush.
Appealing to the "weak and oppressed" around the world, Ayman al Zawahiri sought in a video to dampen enthusiasm for Obama's election around the globe by saying that the "new face" of America only masked a "heart full of hate."
American officials dismissed the new video as spin control and a desperate tactic by a terror group that suffered a defeat in the global war of ideas when the United States elected a black president with a Muslim name.
The Al Qaeda leader described the victory by Obama, who has called for a troop withdrawal from Iraq, as the American people's "admission of defeat in Iraq."
But he warned the president-elect that the United States risked a reprise of the Soviet Union's failures in Afghanistan if Obama followed through on pledges to deploy thousands more troops to the country.
Qaeda greets Obama victory with an insult
By Scott Shane and Mark Mazzetti
Published: November 19, 2008
WASHINGTON: In Al Qaeda's first response to the American election, Osama bin Laden's top deputy condemned President-elect Barack Obama as a "house Negro" who will continue a campaign against Islam begun by President George W. Bush.
Appealing to the "weak and oppressed" around the world, Ayman al Zawahiri sought in a video to dampen enthusiasm for Obama's election around the globe by saying that the "new face" of America only masked a "heart full of hate."
American officials dismissed the new video as spin control and a desperate tactic by a terror group that suffered a defeat in the global war of ideas when the United States elected a black president with a Muslim name.
The Al Qaeda leader described the victory by Obama, who has called for a troop withdrawal from Iraq, as the American people's "admission of defeat in Iraq."
But he warned the president-elect that the United States risked a reprise of the Soviet Union's failures in Afghanistan if Obama followed through on pledges to deploy thousands more troops to the country.