Truemors
Al-Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri posted a video on the internet denouncing the recently elected Barack Obama, saying his election doesn't change who is behind the white house.
He also made several comments disparaging Obama's race and intentions and made reference to Malcolm X, showing old footage.
Al-Qaeda denounced Barack Obama today Wednesday disparaging America's first African-American president as a ``house slave'' and saying his vow to fight Muslim extremists in Afghanistan was doomed.In an video tape released yesterday and recorded some time after Mr. Obama's Nov 4 election triumph, al-Qaida's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri heaps abuse on Mr. Obama who is shown wearing a kippah, or Jewish skullcap.
The BBC has the video here, as well as where you can see that house slave was re-interpreted as 'house negro' in the video's subtitles:
The second-in-command of Islamic militant network al-Qaeda has hit out at US President-elect Barack Obama. In a message purportedly from Ayman al-Zawahiri, the al-Qaeda deputy called Mr Obama a "house slave" - a demeaning term implying he served white people.
It was the first public comment from al-Qaeda since Obama was elected United States president on November 4.
Zawahiri said in an audio message, which appeared on militant web sites, that Mr Obama is "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X. He called Mr Obama a "house negro".Osama bin Laden's Egyptian deputy and spiritual mentor added that Mr Obama's plan to deploy more US troops to Afghanistan is doomed to failure, because Afghans will resist.
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