Al-Qaida No. 2 rips Obama, U.S. allies

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Al-Qaida No. 2 rips Obama, U.S. allies
By Salah Nasrawi - The Associated Press
Posted : Monday Dec 14, 2009 10:24:20 EST

CAIRO — Al-Qaida’s deputy leader said Barack Obama has deceived Arabs about his efforts to restart Mideast peace talks, and claimed in a message posted Monday that the American president has done nothing for the region so far.

Ayman Al-Zawahri also vowed the terror network will not forget militants held in American prisons — including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, al-Qaida’s mastermind of the Sept. 11 bombings.

Mohammed and four others, held for years at the military base in Guantanamo Bay, are due to stand trial on charges they plotted the 2001 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.

Last month’s announcement of the trial, which will be held just blocks from where the World Trade Center towers were destroyed, has sparked concerns about the security risks involved.

Al-Zawahri issued no threats in his new audio message, but singled out Mohammed and two others — Ramzi Youssef, convicted and serving a life sentence for the first World Trade Center attack in 1993, and Omar Abdel-Rahman, serving a life sentence for conspiracies to blow up New York City landmarks and assassinate Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/12/ap_al_qaida_121409/