Al-Qaeda leader Zawahiri in Pakistan: Pentagon

WASHINGTON: Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri is still in Pakistan, a Pentagon official said Wednesday, following the release of a video in which Osama bin Laden's successor blasts the United States.

"We have no information to indicate that he is anywhere else than in Pakistan," Pentagon spokesman George Little said.

Zawahiri, a veteran Egyptian militant and long-time Al-Qaeda number two, took over the militancy network after bin Laden was killed in a clandestine raid by US Navy commandos.

Zawahiri -- in the 62-minute video entitled "The Dawn of Imminent Victory," and which featured a speech by bin Laden -- said he was praying this year's Arab Spring would be followed by a "gloomy, bitter-cold American winter."

Zawahiri was only shown in a still picture in the video, which was released by Al-Qaeda's media arm, as-Sahab, and posted on websites Monday.

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011