New Al Qaida Message Released By Second In Command Ayman al-Zawahiri Reiterating the message in Osama bin Laden's last address, al Qaeda's number two man, Ayman Zawahri released an audio message Wednesday, calling for the siege to be lifted off Ghaza. Lamenting the 1967 Six Day War, referred to in the Arab world as "Al-Naksah" or "the setback," Zawahri follows bin Laden's technique of appealing to Muslim Arabs by rallying around the Palestinian cause.