Al-Qaeda: U.S. is in for attacks

CAIRO, Egypt - In a newly released message, al-Qaeda's U.S.-born spokesman warned President Obama that the group would launch new attacks that would kill more Americans than previous ones.

Adam Gadahn said that comparing the number of dead Muslims "with the relatively small number of Americans we have killed so far, it becomes crystal-clear that we haven't even begun to even the score."

Even if al-Qaeda was defeated, "hundreds of millions of Muslims" would still fight the United States, he said.

In the taunting, 24-minute video message posted on militant websites Sunday, Gadahn, wearing a white robe and turban, mocked Obama as "a devious, evasive, and serpentine American president with a Muslim name."

He also delighted in the president's setbacks, mentioning the loss of the Massachusetts Senate seat to the Republicans, and set out al-Qaeda's conditions for peace, including cutting U.S. support for Israel and withdrawing troops from Afghanistan.

Al-Qaeda had offered the same conditions for an end to hostilities to President George W. Bush in 2007, including the release of all Muslim prisoners and an end to U.S. aid to Middle East governments.

"You're no longer the popular man you once were a year ago or so," Gadahn crowed to Obama, ascribing the president's drop in popularity to the escalation of the U.S. wars abroad.

At the time of Obama's election, many analysts said al-Qaeda was worried that the president's race and Muslim family connections would make him more appealing to Muslims and Arabs angry at Bush's foreign policy.