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November 19th, 2008
Posted: 10:26 AM ET
(CNN) — President-elect Barack Obama Wednesday received a heavy dose of ridicule and a warning from a Web audio message said to be from al Qaeda’s deputy leader, who told the new American leader that “a heavy legacy of failure and crimes awaits” him. In the message purported to be from Ayman al-Zawahiri, the speaker criticized Obama’s foreign policy stances on Afghanistan and Israel and ridiculed the president-elect’s world view, comparing him unfavorably to the late Malcolm X, the fiery African-American Muslim activist from the 1950s and 1960s. “You have reached the position of president, and a heavy legacy of failure and crimes awaits you. A failure in Iraq to which you have admitted, and a failure in Afghanistan to which the commanders of your army have admitted,” the message said. Its authenticity has not yet been verified. |
 
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