[REUTERS] Al Qaeda's wing in Yemen expressed support on Friday for Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
against what it described as a "crusade alliance", referring to U.S.-led air strikes on the bully boyz in Iraq and Syria, and called for attacks to damage the United States.
U.S. and Arab forces have bombed Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq since the hard boyz declared a caliphate in the territory under their control.
Islamic State is an offshoot of al Qaeda but now challenges that group for influence among jihadists.
"We are behind our brothers against this international crusade and we join them in their enmity against this campaign," al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000...
(AQAP), the Yemeni branch of the movement, said in an online statement.
"We confirm the call to whoever is able to hurt the Americans to make an effort to hurt them militarily, economically and through the media. They are the leaders of this war and the base of this campaign."
AQAP reiterated its call on rival holy warrior factions in Iraq and Syria to stop fighting each other and unite against the U.S.-led alliance.
"We urge all the mujahedeen (Islamist fighters) to forget their differences and to stop the infighting among themselves," it said.