While taking full credit for the election of Democrats to U.S. Congress this past November, al-Qaeda's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri, in a video broadcast on Al-Jazeera TV, told the United States Democrats that they should be negotiating with them about the U.S. situation in Iraq if the U.S. wants to be successful.

Al Qaeda Sends a Message to Democrats - by Brian Ross and Hoda Osman

Al Qaeda has sent a message to leaders of the Democratic party that credit for the defeat of congressional Republicans belongs to the terrorists.

In a portion of the tape from al Qaeda No. 2 man, Ayman al Zawahri, made available only today, Zawahri says he has two messages for American Democrats.

"The first is that you aren't the ones who won the midterm elections, nor are the Republicans the ones who lost. Rather, the Mujahideen -- the Muslim Ummah's vanguard in Afghanistan and Iraq -- are the ones who won, and the American forces and their Crusader allies are the ones who lost," Zawahri said, according to a full transcript obtained by ABC News.

Zawahri calls on the Democrats to negotiate with him and Osama bin Laden, not others in the Islamic world who Zawahri says cannot help.

"And if you don't refrain from the foolish American policy of backing Israel, occupying the lands of Islam and stealing the treasures of the Muslims, then await the same fate," he said.

The fact that al-Qaeda is watching and working the U.S. political system should not come as a surprise to anyone in the U.S.. They know they are in a much better situation with the Democrats in power and will, in my opinion try to strike us at home again.

It's all about timing. I can see them waiting till we withdraw our forces from the middle east, knowing the Democrats would never attempt to re-deploy troops to strike them back anywhere in the world.

It's a good plan if you ask me. Hell, we got hit six times during the last administration, and all we did to retaliate was to blow up an aspirin factory in the desert and kill a camel with a 10 million dollar missile.