Topic: Ayman al-Zawahiri

LONDON, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- Al-Qaida second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri says the global financial crisis was caused by the United States' war on Muslims and the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

NEW YORK, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- U.S. Muslim leaders say racially charged statements issued by al-Qaida against U.S. President-elect Barack Obama are "an insult."

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- In al-Qaida's first formal response to the election of Barack Obama, the group's second-in-command said the poll result was "the American people's admission of defeat in Iraq" and personally attacked the president-elect, calling him, in the words of 1960s black militant Malcolm X, a "house negro."

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Al-Qaida criticized U.S. President-elect Barack Obama Wednesday with a racist diatribe that also predicted an ultimate U.S. defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan.

LONDON, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- A man of Indian descent is suing his British former employer after his face was superimposed on a picture of an al-Qaida deputy.

MANIPAL, India, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- There are indeed parallels between the insurgents in Iraq and the Taliban. Both have brown complexions and prefer to avoid a shave. Both get excitable when challenged and regard the United States and its military allies as the enemy. But that is where the similarities stop.

CAIRO, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- Osama bin Laden's top deputy eluded Pakistani troops in the country's tribal areas after they got close to his hideout, another Islamist leader says.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- A video has been released by al-Qaida chastising the Pakistani military and government for the death of radical Muslim leader Abdul Rashid Ghazi.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- Al-Qaida may have launched attacks in Pakistan and Yemen as a diversion against broader plans in Europe or the United States, an analyst says.

SIDON, Lebanon, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- Jordanian security officials Friday said al-Qaida operatives have infiltrated a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon.