InNoCeNT RoMeO
02-09-2010, 05:49 AM
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Yemen-based group that claimed a botched Christmas Day attack on a US airliner, on Monday called for more American targets to be hit around the world.
"American and Crusader interests are everywhere and their agents are moving everywhere," AQAP''s number two Said al-Shihri said in an audio message posted on the Internet.
"Attack them and eliminate as many enemies as you can," the militant leader said in the statement also picked up by the US-based SITE monitoring service.
SITE reported in December that Shihri, a Saudi, was freed from the American "war on terror" prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and was promptly elevated to the senior AQAP ranks.
The US monitors quoted Shihri as saying Yemeni Muslims "must be united in this battle front and support the mujahedeen," and urged "Muslims elsewhere in the Arabian peninsula to do the same" and "embrace jihad."
Shihri urged Yemeni tribes, "especially Al-Awalak, to fight the agents who are plotting with the Crusaders against the Muslims."
Al-Awalak is the tribe of Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical Yemeni-American cleric with reported links to US Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who went on a deadly shooting rampage in Texas in November, and to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian suspected of trying to blow up a US passenger jet on December 25.
"We salute the glorious invasion of Farouk," Shihri said. "We repeat what our Sheikh Osama said, that America will not dream of security until we live in security in Palestine."
"American and Crusader interests are everywhere and their agents are moving everywhere," AQAP''s number two Said al-Shihri said in an audio message posted on the Internet.
"Attack them and eliminate as many enemies as you can," the militant leader said in the statement also picked up by the US-based SITE monitoring service.
SITE reported in December that Shihri, a Saudi, was freed from the American "war on terror" prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and was promptly elevated to the senior AQAP ranks.
The US monitors quoted Shihri as saying Yemeni Muslims "must be united in this battle front and support the mujahedeen," and urged "Muslims elsewhere in the Arabian peninsula to do the same" and "embrace jihad."
Shihri urged Yemeni tribes, "especially Al-Awalak, to fight the agents who are plotting with the Crusaders against the Muslims."
Al-Awalak is the tribe of Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical Yemeni-American cleric with reported links to US Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who went on a deadly shooting rampage in Texas in November, and to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian suspected of trying to blow up a US passenger jet on December 25.
"We salute the glorious invasion of Farouk," Shihri said. "We repeat what our Sheikh Osama said, that America will not dream of security until we live in security in Palestine."