Al-Zawahri calls Bush ‘failure,’ ‘butcher’ in video

by on January 30th, 2006

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/terror/20060130-1544-zawahritape.html

CAIRO, Egypt – In a new video aired Monday, al-Qaeda’s No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri mocked President Bush as a “failure” in the war on terror, called him a “butcher” for killing innocent Pakistanis in a miscarried airstrike and chastised the United States for rejecting Osama bin Laden’s offer of a truce.

Al-Zawahri, wearing white robes and a white turban and speaking in a forceful and angry voice, also threatened a new attack in the United States – “God willing, on your own land.”

The video, broadcast on Al-Jazeera TV a day before Bush delivers his State of the Union address, provided the first concrete evidence that al-Zawahri was still alive after the Jan. 13 airstrike in eastern Pakistan that targeted him but killed four other al-Qaeda leaders and 13 villagers.

The message came on the heels of a Jan. 19 audiotape by bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader’s first tape in more than a year. Bin Laden said his followers were preparing an attack in the United States and offered the Americans a conditional truce, though he did not spell out terms.

Etalkinghead Staff