Al Qaeda Derides Funding Bill; Attacks Bush; Urges Racial Unrest

A new video from Al Qaeda shows #2 man Ayman al-Zawahiri mocking the U.S. Congress for its recent funding bill, which included a timetable for the withdrawal of American forces. Zawahiri called the bill evidence of America’s "failure and frustration" and smeared the Baghdad security plan, sarcastically asking President Bush to meet him in a cafeteria in Baghdad where a suicide bomber killed an Iraqi legislator last month. The 67 minute diatribe also saw Zawahiri urging various minority groups to rise up, saying that Al Qaeda is not "waging Jihad to lift oppression from the Muslims only…" He specifically exhorted "blacks in America, people of color, American Indians, Hispanics, and all the weak and oppressed in North and South America…" among others to recognize Al Qaeda’s call "never to accept oppression…"