New message from al Qaeda leader

Two videos and one audio link have come to light in recent days that suggest that the world's most recognizable terrorist group is still active, at least in online postings.

The audio is a question-and-answer session purportedly involving al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri that was published Friday on the radical Islamist website Hanein. While CNN has not verified the authenticity of the tape, the voice is similar to al-Zawahiri's from previously authenticated recordings.

In a wide-ranging, nearly hour-long interview with al Qaeda's media arm, known as al-Sahab, al-Zawahiri touches on everything from drones to Syria to Egypt. He insists that al Qaeda is holding strong 13 years after the United States launched its "war on terror" following the September 11, 2001, attacks.

"The upper hand is for the one who does not withdraw from his land," al-Zawahiri says. "Who has withdrawn from Iraq, and who has not? Who has withdrawn from Afghanistan and who has not?"

Al-Zawahiri adds that even U.S. President Barack Obama knows al Qaeda "is expanding."

"Al Qaeda is scattered in all the Islamic world and among the oppressed," he said.

That analysis is relatively peaceful compared with the chilling words uttered in a newly discovered video from Al-Shabaab.

Among its threats: "We will blow you up, until we finish you off."

Members of the Somalia-based, al Qaeda-linked militant group also use the video to reflect on one of its most memorable, deadliest attacks to date -- the four-day siege last September of an upscale Nairobi, Kenya, indoor shopping center that ended with at least 67 killed.

Source http://edition.cnn.com/2014/04/18/world/terrorist-messages-surface/