Counterterrorism Research Library Yemen Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula: “Martyrs Taken from Amongst You”
Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula: “Martyrs Taken from Amongst You”
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On July 21, 2010, Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) released a video recording titled, “Martyrs Taken from Amongst You”, in which AQAP dismissed ties between Al-Qaida and Iran: “…you’ll remain unsuspecting in your sleep, keeping your hopes hung on the betraying cooperative rulers in the region, believing in lies that the mujahideen are agents for Iran? In Allah, we disown this accusation, and every distal and proximate person knows the approach of the [Al-Qaida] Organization in dealing with every apostate tyrant; deterring and fighting every enemy of Allah and His messenger. Thus, by Allah I ask you: who stood against the danger of the Shiites in Iraq and deterred their aggression from the Sunni people, but the honest mujahideen? No one will defend the Sunni people but the mujahideen who stand against injustice and do not accept inferiority in their faith.” AQAP also revealed that “the news of bombings and operations and victories waged by the mujahideen used to reach the prisoners at Guantanamo in spite of the lengthy distance and the elevated secrecy over them…the scene of lowering the American flag used to alert them about some revenge against the Americans overseas.”
