Al-Qaida chief warns Obama of attack

[Deckard]

Al-Qaida chief warns Obama of attack
Bin Laden's right-hand man releases audio tape that warns president-elect not to continue Bush's policies

He has also accused US President-elect Barack Obama of betraying his Islamic roots.

Al-Zawahri warned Obama not to continue the policies of his predecessor, George Bush, on Iraq or he would "face failure", Reuters reported.

Osama bin-Laden's right-hand man called on Islamists to continue attacks against "criminal America" and appeared aimed at convincing Muslims that Obama does not represent a change in US policies.

Al-Zawahri attacked Obama for supporting Israel and "turning his back on his Islamic roots".

Now isn't this just great. The chance of Obama getting away with taking a more radical approach to foreign policy immediately became smaller thanks to the release of this tape.

I used to occasionally wonder if the imperialist forces of neo-conservativism and the warped ideology of al-Qaeda might secretly, at some level, be in cahoots. Assuming this tape isn't such an example of negative psychology, it seems, once again, extraordinarily stupid and a sure-fire way to get your opponent to stick to doing the very opposite of what you appear to want.