Al-Qaeda's deputy leader has urged Muslims not to listen to Barack Obama as the US president heads to the Middle East to make a speech to the Muslim world.
Calling Obama a "criminal", Ayman al-Zawahiri told Muslims not to heed the "elegant words" of the US leader whose speech in Cairo on Thursday is aimed at repairing ties with the Islamic world damaged by his predecessor's "war on terror" policies.
"His bloody messages were received and are still being received by Muslims, and they will not be concealed by public relations campaigns or by farcical visits or elegant words," said an audio recording purportedly by Zawahiri posted on an al-Qaeda-linked website on Tuesday.
The recording could not be verified. Obama policies Obama will first fly to Saudi Arabia for talks with King Abdullah, who has been trying to relaunch a 2002 Arab-backed regional peace initiative. Read on.
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