Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula Statement on the Death of Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan

Written by Administrator Monday, 10 October 2011 10:32

On October 10, 2011, Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) issued a statement confirming the "martyrdom" of U.S. nationals Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan. According to the statement: "The Americans killed the scholar Shaykh Anwar al-Awlaqi and Samir Khan, but they did not prove any crime they committed and they never presented any proof against them from their laws of unjust freedom. So, where is the freedom, justice, human rights and respect of freedoms they boast of? Did America become so suffocated that it contradicted...these principles it claims it established its country on?" AQAP further warned, "The blood of the Shaykh [al-Awlaki] and his companions will not have been spilled in vain...Our knights will...take revenge soon." The statement from AQAP made no mention of master bombmaker Ibrahim al-Assiri, who was also rumored killed in the same drone missile strike.

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