Yemen

Last Updated (Tuesday, 05 January 2010 13:45) Written by Laith Alkhouri Wednesday, 23 December 2009 00:00

Al Awlaki is a U.S. citizen, who served as an imam in Colorado, California, and Washington D.C. and worked as the Muslim Chaplain at George Washington Univ. He was the “spiritual advisor” to 9/11 hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Midhar, and the Congressional Joint Inquiry on 9/11 reported that “the FBI agent responsible for the September 11 investigation informed staff that ‘there’s a lot of smoke there’ with regard to…[al Awlaki’s] connection to the hijackers.” Returning to Yemen, he was arrested in 2006 and held for over a year. He reports being interrogated by FBI agents about a number of subjects, including 9/11.

"While the American president was announcing that a threat to his country’s security comes fromover the borders and specifically from Afghanistan and Pakistan as current regions of threat, and Yemen and Somalia as future regions of threat, the American Army Major Nidal Hasan—Muslim from Palestinian origins—was planning to kill American officers and soldiers inside the biggest American military base in the World (Fort Hood Base)...

AQ in Yemen: Will of Martyr Raed al-Harbi

Last Updated (Tuesday, 05 January 2010 13:00) Written by Laith Alkhouri Sunday, 06 December 2009 00:00

“Raed al-Harbi (Abu Omar al-Najdi) was from Harb Tribe; a tribe that, for long, fought the tyrants by supporting the mujahideen in the Arabian Peninsula until many people from this tribe were imprisoned. Raed migrated to the land of victory and jihad and crossed the borders of the colonialists atop his camel for nine hours, and he joined Jund al-Yemen group and fought with them until many of them died. His desire was to go to Iraq to join the soldiers of the Islamic State of Iraq—may Allah endear it—and over which his brother was martyred by executing a martyrdom operation. And when he found men who seek to reach what the heroes of the Islamic State of Iraq intend to reach, he said: ‘life is when you live it and death if when you die; do you seek to establish the Islamic State...

AQ in Yemen: Will of Martyr Yusef al-Shehri

Last Updated (Tuesday, 05 January 2010 13:05) Written by Laith Alkhouri Sunday, 06 December 2009 00:00

“Yousef al-Shehri (Abu Tamim al-Azdi), we consider him, and Allah is his considerer, was from those struggling in the tribes, grasping onto burning coal, from those who’d reconcile if people became corrupt; from the relatives of Khubaib and Bilal and Khabbab in the days of urgency and disaster, and the days of Jihad and sacrifice, and the days of honesty and loyalty, from the homes of faith and its people; from the people of Jihad, support and sacrifice, and his tribe had the honor of defending Islam and deterring oppression, and from this tribe were three riders who transformed today’s idle—America—into dust in New York and Washington. He is the brother of Abu Uthman who has engaged in Jihad in Afghanistan, and he has three brothers in al-Ha’er prison, and his nephew is with him in the Jihad battlefields, and his sister Umm Hajir al-Azdia; the patient and migrating, crossed valleys and hills running with her faith from the grandsons of Jahl; running on the footsteps of Umm Salmah and Umm Ayman in their migration to Allah and His messenger, may Allah grace both of them. “

“The immigrant Yusef journeyed to Afghanistan, to the mountain summits where a person learns dearness, prepares himself [for Jihad], and learns the methods of fighting and Jihad...

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula: "Statement Claiming Responsibility for Attempted Assassination against Prince Mohammad bin Nayef

Last Updated (Tuesday, 05 January 2010 23:43) Written by Laith Alkhouri Thursday, 27 August 2009 00:00

On August 27th, 2009, a suicide bomber professing a desire to recant his support to al-Qaeda and swear allegiance to Saudi authorities, attempted to assassinate the Deputy Interior Minister of Saudi Arabia, Muhammad bin Nayef al-Saud. Al-Saud was slightly injured in the attack, which took place during the Ramadan celebrations in the Saudi Kingdom.

"In a sophisticated operation and security breach, which is the first of its time in the Arabian Peninsula, we have targeted the secretary Minister of Interior for Security Affairs, the tyrant and criminal Muhammad bin Nayef al-Saud who has waged war against Allah and His messenger and His faithful servants, and he is among the evildoers. As you know, the mujahid brother, the martyred fugitive from the 85 most wanted list, "Abu al-Khayr," Abdullah Hasan Taleh al-Aseri, and by the grace and power of Allah he was able to enter Nayef's palace and circulate amongst his bodyguards. thereupon igniting his explosive device..."

AQ in Yemen Claims Attack on South Korean Tourists

Last Updated (Monday, 29 November 1999 19:00) Written by Evan Kohlmann Thursday, 02 April 2009 09:42

The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new statement from Al-Qaida's Committee in Yemen claiming responsibility for a March 16 suicide bombing attack on South Korean tourists near the city of Shibam, naming the bomber as "Abu Ubaidah al-Jarrah." According to the statement, "This was executed in response to the order of Allah's Prophet, prayers and peace be upon him, who said, 'drive the idolaters out of the Arabian Peninsula'; for South Korea's role in the war on Islam, allying with the crusader forces under the slogan of the 'War on Terrorism' in Afghanistan and Iraq; in revenge for the killing of the two courageous commanders Hamza al-Qaiti and Abdullah Batees and their brothers; and, the role of these tourists in corrupting the ideology of the Muslims and their morals, and their dangerous role in spreading Christianity among Muslim children-and so, this operation was executed."