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American al Qaeda figure Adam Gadahn accused U.S. President Barack Obama of standing behind the killing of Muslims in Palestine, Afghanistan and Pakistan in a new videotape produced by the terrorist group’s media arm As Sahab.

“O’ nation of Islam, you have seen the truth about Obama in the Gaza Holocaust which he approved of, and in Muslim Palestine which he wants to turn Jewish and in Afghanistan and in the tribal areas which he bombed and is still bombing,” Gadahn said.

He also criticized Obama’s plan to send more troops to Afghanistan, saying it was going to result in “increasing the spilling of Muslim blood.”

Like al Qaeda leader’s Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahri, Gadahn urged his audience not to fall for Obama’s talk about his respect for Islam, warning them that this was just an attempt to steer Muslims away from jihad.

Gadahn described Obama’s remarks during his visit to Turkey, which included saying that the U.S. was not at war with Islam, as “deceptive, false and sugar-coated words of endearment” intended to “divert the eyes of the world in general and Muslims in particular from the ugly and continuous crimes of the crusaders in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and other lands of Islam.”

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CBS News obtained a new audio statement by al Qaeda’s leader in Afghanistan Mostafa Abul Yazid, which appears to be a private message directed towards al Qaeda supporters in Turkey to ask for financial support.

“We, your brothers in Afghanistan, are sending you our greetings and would like to present you with some recommendations,” Abul Yazid said. He advised his interlocutor to treat Turkish Muslims well and be kind to them.

After a small introduction about financial support being a duty as jihad itself, Abul Yazid explains that the Afghani al Qaeda group was lacking “a lot of funds” and said this was the reason for the slowdown in operations these days. He points out that the militants are unable to carry out attacks because they have no money to do it with. Abu Yazid claims that the situation is so bad, that there are many men who want to carry out suicide operations, but “ we can’t equip them because of the shortage in funds.”

It is not clear when this tape was recorded, but it seems to be over six months old, as Abul Yazid refers to former U.S. President George W. Bush as being still in office.

Other al Qaeda leaders had urged supporters to donate money to al Qaeda in the past, like al Qaeda’s number two Ayman al Zawahri, who once asked Saudi supporters for financial support. Al Zawahri’s message was intercepted by the Saudi authorities in 2007.

Al Qaeda’s leader Osama bin Laden’s latest audio statement, parts of which were aired by the Arab news network al Jazeera on Wednesday, focused on the situation in Pakistan and criticizing the government of Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari.

The timing of the release of the statement, a day before U.S. President Barack Obama’s much-anticipated speech to Muslims out of Cairo, and Bin Laden’s attacks on Obama in the audio seemed to suggest al Qaeda’s leader’s statement was intended as a pre-reaction to the speech.

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In a new audio statement aired by the al Jazeera Arab news channel on Wednesday, al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden accused President Barack Obama and his administration of “panting new seeds of hatred and vengeance towards America” by supporting the military operations against militants in Pakistan.

“The number of these seeds equates that of those who have suffered and been made homeless in the Swat valley and the tribal areas in northern and southern Waziristan, as well as those who sympathize with them,” he added.

Al Qaeda’s leader compared President Obama’s policies to those of his predecessor President George W. Bush and said they created “more enmity towards Muslims” and “paved the way for new long wars.”

“Let the American people prepare to continue harvesting what their White House leaders grow, in the years and decades to come,” he added.

Bin Laden’s statement comes a day after al Qaeda’s number two Ayman al Zawahri said President Obama was not welcomed in Egypt, where he is expected to address Muslims on Thursday.

Bin Laden also accused Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari of receiving his orders from President Obama and claimed one million Muslims, including elderly people, women and children, had to flee their homes because of the operations in the valley.

Al Qaeda No. 2, Ayman Zawahiri said in a new audiotape today that President Obama is not welcome in Egypt. Commenting on Obama's upcoming visit to Cairo, Zawahiri said that President Obama's message to the Muslim World has already been delivered. "Obama's message to the Muslim World was delivered when he visited the Wailing wall, with the Jewish skullcap on his head…when he performed the Jewish prayers despite claiming that he is Christian," Zawahiri said, reminding his audience of Obama's pledge before the AIPAC conference to make Jerusalem the undivided capital of Israel.

Senior al Qaeda figure Abu Yehya al Libi claimed that the “mujahedeen” all over the world are preparing to unleash their vengeance upon those responsible for “the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza” in a new video tape produced by al Qaeda’s mouthpiece As Sahab and released on militant Islamist websites Wednesday.

“The mujahideen from the east and the west are preparing to retaliate and avenge what happened and what is still happening to Muslims in Gaza at the hands of the Jews. It’s a debt in their conscience, and they shall know no rest until they pay it back…in full,” al Libi said.

Al Libi's speech came in reaction to a statement on Gaza war issued by a over a hundred Muslim scholars last January, which urged Muslims to support “jihad” in Gaza and labeled those who cooperated with the Israeli government apostates.

Al Libi urged the scholars to issue similar “fatwas,” i.e religious edicts legitimizing “jihad” in other Muslim land such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, and Eastern Turkistan. “Isn’t the tragedy in all those places the same? Aren’t all those enemies transgressors, infidels and impious?” exclaimed al Libi.

Al Libi asked the scholars to clarify to the Muslim nation that the United States and Israel formed one entity and that there wasn’t any difference between waging war against the Israeli army and striking against U.S. interests wherever they may be.

“Why should the U.S. be exempted from paying for its support just like Israel? And why shouldn’t we target it on its own land, and wherever it maybe, by bombing its military, political, economic and financial facilities?” He then turned his attention to Europe, saying that everything he said regarding the U.S. applied for Europe “especially the United Kingdom and France.”

Al Libi ended his message by saluting the scholars and discretely suggested that some form of cooperation between the two sides might be possible. “Such stances enables us to benefit from their knowledge, and put our hands in theirs…it’s a victory to the righteous that they called for.”

Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had himself issued an appeal to “the devoted committees of scholars in the Islamic world,” in an audio statement on Gaza that he released in mid-March. He asked them to establish an advisory body to create awareness about what he called true Islam amongst youths in Muslim countries, and about the future of the region.

Al Libi had released a video statement last February where he called on Somalis to rebel against newly elected president. His video released today runs over 58 minutes. He appeared sitting against a brown background, dressed a military jacket on top of his traditional dress, and a white turban on his head.

American al Qaeda figure Adam Gadahn called on Muslims to support jihad with "men and money," while claiming that the West was now on the verge of collapse under the strikes of the militants.

Gadahn's comments came in a one-hour and 30-minute video produced by al Qaeda's media wing As Sahab and released on the Internet on Monday.

"The enemy under the leadership of the unbelieving West has began to stagger and falter, and the results of its unabated bleeding has began to show on its economy, which is on the brink of failure," said Gadahn.

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Al Qaeda’s second-in-command Ayman al Zawahri criticized the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant of Sudan’s President Omar al Bashir, but stressed that he did not support al Bashir. “I am not defending Omar al Bashir or his regime, nor am I defending what it has done in Darfur and elsewhere; rather, I am asking our Muslim nation to look at the matter in a comprehensive way,” al Zawahri said in a new audio statement, released today, dedicated to the Sudanese situation.

Al Zawahri argued that the arrest warrant represented more “foreign interference in Muslim countries” and questioned why other world leaders like “Bush, Blair, Olmert, Barak, Musharraf and Putin” were not put on trial. He also criticized the United Nations for not intervening during the Israeli aggression on Gaza.

Al Zawahri urged the Sudanese people to prepare for a “long guerrilla war.” “The Sudanese regime is too weak to defend the Sudan, so you must do what was done by your brothers in Iraq and Somalia, who defended their countries when the official regimes were powerless to do that,” he said.

He also expressed support for Muslims in Sudan. “We shall – with God’s help – do all that is in our power to help you, despite our knowledge that the Sudanese regime lies in wait for any mujahid it might discover in the Sudan.”

Finally, al Zawahri said the situation offers an opportunity for al Bashir to repent and to “realize that the Crusade will be satisfied with nothing less than total submission and surrender.”

Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, speaking in a new audio recording released Thursday on various jihadi Web forums and downloaded by CBS News, has asked Somalis to rebel against their newly elected president.

This is the second audio released by bin Laden in six days, and the reference to Somalia's new president, who was only elected on Jan. 31, helps to date the recording. In an audio released on March 14, bin Laden asked Muslim youth to disseminate extremist literature online.

In the audio, titled “Fight On O’ Champions of Somalia,” Bin Laden first analyzes the situation in Somalia, explaining that Ethiopian troops were acting as proxy forces for NATO and the "International Crusade" which he says appointed former President Abdullah Yucef as its representative in the country.

Al Qaeda's leader doesn't waste much time in getting to his opinion of the newly elected president of Somalia, an Islamist militant-turned-politician Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmad.

Bin Laden says Ahmad is just another puppet brought in by the West because Somalis were fooled by the not-so-convincing President Yucef.

“But, since you weren’t taken in by the old trick of 'Karzais’ which they have been using in the region, they replaced him and brought in a new, revised version, similar to Sayyaf, Rabbani and Ahmed Shah Massoud, who were leaders of the Afghan Mujahideen before they turned back on their heels as apostates and helped their ally - America – bring down the Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan,” bin Laden said.

Bin Laden decreed that Somalis should continue to fight the new regime, just as they did with the old one. “These sorts of presidents are the surrogates of our enemies and their authority is null and void in the first place, and as Sheikh Sharif is one of them, he must be dethroned and fought.”

Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden proposed liberating Palestinian lands by finding bases in countries that surround it, from which the militants would move out to open the borders by force.

Bin Laden suggested that the militants should establish a strong base in Iraq and from there move into Jordan and force their way into Palestine. He urged Muslims around the world to back the Islamist militants in Iraq in order for them to liberate Iraq and carry out his plan.

Bin Laden’s statements came in a 33-minute audio tape entitled “Practical Steps To Liberate Palestine.” The tape was produced by al Qaeda’s media wing As Sahab. Bin Laden’s voice was played over a still picture of himself next to a picture of al Aqsa mosque.

Bin Laden also noted that it was time to give some much needed attention to the Palestinian cause and acknowledged that there has been a delay in addressing the issue. “We have been very late in helping them, and that has damaged our causes and made them even more difficult and complicated,” he said.

He claimed that the inability to come to the rescue to the people of Gaza during the recent Israeli war was due to the fact that Arab rulers, including Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, were preventing the Islamist militants from crossing into Gaza and defending its people.

“The bitter truth is that our countries are occupied from within and the Arab Zionists and their soldiers are the ones who prevent us from helping the weak and oppressed there,” he said, adding that it was not possible to try to liberate Palestinian lands if Muslims could not free themselves first.
Bin Laden also stressed that Arab rulers had to be removed with the help of honest Muslim leaders who would set up what he called “advice committees” in order to create awareness and recruit as many people as possible to face those rulers.

He also specified a number of tasks for these committees to deliver, including preparing lists with the names of the scholars and thinkers who support militancy and promote their works amongst Muslim youths.
Bin Laden also called for spreading the works of a number of salafist scholars, specifying the book titles, and where to download them on the Internet.