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AQAP’s Media Arm Releases Audio Recording of Sheikh Abi az-Zubeir Adel
Last Updated (Monday, 29 November 1999 19:00) Written by Laith Alkhouri Thursday, 01 April 2010 11:16
On March 29, 2010, al-Malahem Media Production--Al‐Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula’s (AQAP) media arm--released an audio recording featuring Sheikh Abi az-Zubeir Adel al-Abbab, in which he condemned the Americans for occupying “the sky of Yemen with their surveillance jets that violate the privacy of the Muslims and view their secrets.” He alleged that “the reason for America’s monstrous attack on the mujahideen in Yemen is its fear of the establishment of the Islamic sharia on earth…” In his view, “They fight the Muslims in Yemen in order to guarantee for them the presence of Israel occupying Palestine, and to keep the presence of the America, British and French armies to continue exploiting and muddling with the Muslims resources in Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula.” Further, al-Abbab noted that the U.S. supported Yemen counterterrorism operations “with a sum that tops $70 million in the recent months of 2009” and that “the Pentagon promised to raise the sum to $150 million.” He urged “honest Ulama…to sign a collective fatwa in regards to prohibiting fighting in the ranks of the cooperative Yemeni-American campaign against the mujahideen.” Al-Abbab, moreover, praised Christmas Day bomber, Nigerian national Omar al-Farooq Abdulmutallab, asserting that “he crossed these made-up boundaries achieving the highest meanings of Islamic brotherhood as he tried to target the American airliner to support his brothers and to respond to the monstrosity of the disbelievers’ raids”
