Al-Qaida’s Number 2 leader, Ayman al-Zawahri posted a message directed at President-Elect Barack Obama on Wednesday. Zawahri spent the majority of his 11 and a half minute audio clip speech demeaning the President-Elect, referring to Obama by racial epithets and degrading terms.

The video, which in part is embedded below, is being viewed as mere “despicable comments from a terrorist” by members of the State Department, that quotation from State Department spokesman Sean McCormack.

“America has put on a new face, but its heart full of hate, mind drowning in greed, and spirit which spreads evil, murder, repression and despotism continue to be the same as always,” the deputy of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden said.

The video calls out Obama as a new face on an old body (a reference to the United States). He calls America a “mind drowning in greed, and [a] spirit which spreads evil, murder, repression, and despotism.” He sites the failures of Great Britain, China, and Russia in the past. Lets take a minute to think back to how Afghanistan had any chance of defeating the former Soviet Union? Oh yeah, it was because of a body called US, the United States. We gave your country weapons, we trained your people to fight the Russians. And you won. But you had no chance of defeating Russian forces had we not intervened. So how dare you turn the table and attack us. Ideals and beliefs aside, how dare you attack our President-Elect for his association with Americans, Jews, Christians, etc. He was born to a Muslim father, and is now a Christian. WHAT is the commotion about? What is it, you lost “a soldier?” While religion is killing the Republican party, religion is tearing our world apart as it intertwines itself with world politics and terrorist activities.

I can not speak for every Muslim, but I have had many discussions with friends of Muslim faith. And they all agree that YOU are not a Muslim as THEY are a Muslim. You preach violence, war, and radicalism. Obama preaches change. Change from the Bush administrations policing efforts around the world. Obama wants to end the War in Iraq. And he wants to finish off the War in Afghanistan, but in order to do that, we have to focus our efforts on our nation’s security and ridding the world of deposed and radical leaders like yourself, leaders who only seek violence and bloodshed as a means to spreading your ideas and attaining your goals. Why don’t you concern yourself with the economic hardships the people of your country are facing, the widespread famine, harsh living conditions, and political instability?

This video is al-Qaida’s first public position on President-Elect Obama. What will result from this? So far, the Obama team has remained mum on the subject. Will Obama’s Presidency be marked by this video, a video transmitted before his Presidency even began? Or better yet, does this video even deserve a response? I am inclined to think not. Guess what al-Zawahri, you just showed your cards, and you are scared of an Obama Presidency. Thanks for letting us know.

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