DUBAI: Osama bin Laden’s second-in-command has warned in a new Al-Qaeda video that US President Barack Obama will be defeated by Islamic fighters, a US-based monitoring group said.

The video, released to mark the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, features Al-Qaeda deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri and footage of a US soldier captured in Afghanistan, according to a statement by the SITE Intelligence Group.

The 106-minute video, called “The West and the Dark Tunnel,” also features Adam Gadahn, known as the

Al-Qaeda operative “Azzam the American,” SITE said.

In the video, Zawahiri urges Muslims to participate in jihad, or holy war, and slams Arab leaders for following what it says is US policy of forcing support for Israel.

“This policy finds some who respond to it. All Arab presidents and kings cooperate with it. All those who

belong to the so-called

Arab nationalism deal with it, which accepts the conditions of American domination

over the world.” Turning

to Obama, Zawahiri warned that “the Muslim nation

has begun to awaken” and that a “jihadi awakening

will pervade”.