The second-ranking leader of the al-Qaeda network, Ayman al-Zawahiri, said in a new video that US President Barack Obama "did not change anything" about the Muslims' perception of the United States.

"The new President Obama did not change anything of the image of America towards Muslims and the oppressed," according to excerpts of Zawahiri's statement released by the SITE Intelligence Group. "It is America that is still killing Muslims in Palestine, Iraq, and Afghanistan," the al-Qaeda's number two said in the video that was released today.