Al Qaeda?s Ayman al-Zawahiri released an audiotape response to events in Egypt on Feb. 18, 2011, accompanied by this still picture. (Intel center)Al-Qaida No. 2 Issues Video After Egypt Upheaval -- ABC News
Al-Qaida No. 2 issues first video after Egypt upheaval
Al-Qaida's deputy leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, issued the terror network's first message since the upheaval began in Egypt, saying the country's rule has long "deviated from Islam" and warning that democracy "can only be non-religious."
The wave of popular protests that ousted Egypt's president, Hosni Mubarak, appeared to have caught al-Qaida off guard. The terror group had long called for the destruction of Mubarak's regime — and al-Zawahri, an Egyptian doctor, was part of a militant uprising against Mubarak in the 1990s that was crushed.
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More News On Al Qaeda`s Response To The Revolution In Egypt
Al-Qaida No. 2 issues video after Egypt upheaval -- AP
Qaeda's Zawahri slams Mubarak's Egypt as corrupt-web -- Reuters
Message to Egypt From Qaeda’s No. 2 -- New York Times
Al-Qaida message on Egypt, belatedly -- MSNBC
My Comment: For Al Zawahiri to take a week to respond to the revolution and overthrow of Egyptian President Mubarak tells me that he must be buried in some remote and very isolated cave that is completely cut off from communications.
Or it took one week to decide what to say.
But Osama Bin Laden`s response .... or complete lack of it .... is deafening.