Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader insults Obama with racial epithet
(AP)
<p><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081119/capt.e8dc4ef327a54ceba1a6941865857ddc.al_qaida_obama_ny110.jpg?x=130&y=103&q=85&sig=ez3nSh98ZuRi0A6EPz93Zg--" align="left" height="103" width="130" alt="In a frame from a video provided by IntelCenter, posted on the Internet Thursday, April 13, 2006, al-Qaida's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri praises insurgents in Iraq. Al-Zawahri insulted Barack Obama in the terror group's first reaction to his election, calling him a demeaning racial term implying that the president-elect is a black American who does the bidding of whites. Al-Zawahri said in a message, which appeared on militant Web sites Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008, that Obama is 'the direct opposite of honorable black Americans' like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader. (AP Photo/IntelCenter)" border="0" /> (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081119/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_al_qaida_obama)AP - Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, describing the president-elect in demeaning terms that imply he does the bidding of whites. The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies.</p><br clear="all"/>
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