Al-Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has used a racial slur to demean President-elect Barack Obama implying he does the bidding of whites.
Zawahiri said in an audio message, which appeared on militant web sites, that Mr Obama is "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X. He called Mr Obama a "house negro".
Osama bin Laden's Egyptian deputy and spiritual mentor added that Mr Obama's plan to deploy more US troops to Afghanistan is doomed to failure, because Afghans will resist.
It was the first public comment from the al-Qaeda leadership about Mr Obama's electoral victory.
The audio plays over still pictures of Zawahiri, Malcolm X praying, and Mr Obama with Jewish leaders.
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The message came to light as a "major" Arab al-Qaeda terrorist was reportedly among six militants killed by a US missile strike in northwest Pakistan.
Pakistani security sources told a news agency that the terrorist killed was Abdullah Azzam Al-Saudi, a senior member of bin Laden's terror network.
They claimed that US intelligence officials had identified as the main link between Al-Qaeda's senior command and Taliban networks in the Pakistani border region.
The missile strike by a suspected US drone killed at least six people, and marked the first US missile attack outside of the rugged tribal regions which have become safe havens for militants linked to Taliban and al-Qaeda, one Pakistani security official said.
The target was a house in northwestern Bannu district, on the border of the tribal territory.
If his death is confirmed, Saudi would be the second high-profile al-Qaeda operative killed in recent US missile strikes near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan.
The Egyptian al-Qaeda operative Abu Jihad al-Masri, described by the US as the terror network's propaganda chief, was among several people killed in a Nov 1 missile strike in the North Waziristan region, known as a hub of Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
Pakistan objects to the attacks as a violation of its sovereignty and argues that the strikes undermine its efforts to persuade people to support campaigns against the militants, and heightens already rampant anti-American sentiment.
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