Nothing like a cozy fireside chat:
New Video From Al Qaeda Number Two

[The video] appears to be more of a 'state of the ummah' style address intended to try and provide advice to the Muslim world in a manner similar to the fireside chat. [...]

Sometimes using charts or referring to lengthy excerpts, including one from Bob Woodward's book "Plan of Attack," the video is part-seminar, part-call to jihad.

At one point, Zawahiri even pauses to crack a joke about an article he read in an Egyptian newspaper that refers to a fax allegedly sent from a political prisoner there who renounces his extremist views from prison.

"Do the prison cells of Egypt now have fax machines?" he asks disbelievingly, "and I wonder, are they connected to the same line as the electric shock machine or do they have a separate line?"

What a knee-slapper! I gotta million of 'em. But I gotta tell ya. What is this, an audience or an oil painting? I'm here all week, folks. Don't forget to tip your waitress.