DUBAI: Osama bin Laden's right-hand man Ayman al-Zawahiri took aim at US President Barack Obama in a new video, accusing him of continuing to spill the blood of Muslims and saying Israel was a "crime" that must be wiped out, according to a US monitoring group. "Israel is a crime that must be eliminated," declared the Egyptian-born surgeon considered the brains behind Al-Qaeda, adding that Muslims have a duty to expel Israel from Palestine. Zawahiri, whose whereabouts remain a mystery, also rejected Obama's overtures to the Muslim world as an illusion, pointing to raids in Pakistan's tribal regions and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.LINK