Al-Qaeda No. 2 slams Obama

Al-Qaeda No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri criticizes President-elect Barack Obama in a new message, calling him a demeaning racial term implying that Obama is a black American who does the bidding of whites.

Al-Zawahri says in an audio message, which appeared on militant Web sites Wednesday, that Obama is "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X. He calls Obama a "house negro."

He adds that Obama's plan to shift troops to Afghanistan is doomed to failure, because Afghans will resist. This is the first public comment of Al-Qaeda about Obama's electoral victory. The audio plays over still pictures of al-Zawahri, Malcolm X praying, and Obama with Jewish leaders. (AP)