Terror mastermind Osama bin Laden calls President Obama “powerless” and blames the Sept. 11 attacks on U.S. support for Israel in a new tape released by Al-Qaeda’s media arm on Sunday.

Coming two days after the eighth anniversary of the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center, the fugitive terrorist reportedly pledges in an 11-minute video titled “Message to the American People” to continue a “war of attrition on all possible axes.”

In the video, which features an audio statement and still image of bin Laden, he accuses Obama of leading from weakness by keeping Bush’s defense secretary, Robert Gates, on his team, AFP reported. “Reasonable people knew that Obama is a powerless man who will not be able to end the war as he promised,” bin Laden says.

“To the American people, this is my message to you: a reminder of the reasons behind 9/11 and the wars and the repercussions that followed and the way to resolve it,” the message said.

“From the beginning, we have stated many times … that the cause of our disagreement with you is your support of your allies, the Israelis, who are occupying our land in Palestine. Your stance along with some other grievances are what led us to carry out the events of 9/11.”

The video plays the audio over a undated photograph of bin Laden. The video also shows a banner with the American flag as the backdrop and an image of the New York City skyline with the twin towers of the World Trade Center — destroyed in the 9/11 attack — still standing, terrorism analyst Laura Mansfield told CNN.

The last tape attributed to the terror chief surfaced in June as Obama was visiting Saudi Arabia. In it, bin Laden criticized Obama’s outreach to the Muslim world and warned of decades of fighting.

The video brings no new images of bin Laden, who was last seen in footage two years ago on the sixth anniversary of the terror attacks.

(Source: CNN / NBC News)