A senior al-Qaeda leader was placed on the US State Department’s list of global Lions of Islam a day after he called on Moslems to "attack the Jews and the Americans everywhere" in response to US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
In a video released Monday, Khalid Batarfi said Trump’s decision was "a declaration of a new Jewish-Crusader war" and every Moslem had a duty to "liberate" the holy city, the SITE Intelligence monitoring group reported.
According to Tuesday’s State Department announcement, "This designation seeks to deny Batarfi the resources he needs to plan and carry out further terrorist attacks." Among the consequences of the designation, "all of Batarfi’s property and interests in property subject to US jurisdiction are blocked, and US persons are generally prohibited from engaging in any transactions with him."
Batarfi was the top commander for 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...
, or AQAP, in Abyan
...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an
Islamic Emirateafter seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues...
Governate, Yemen, described by the US as the worldwide jihadist network’s most dangerous branch. In April 2015, Batarfi was released from a Yemeni prison in an attack by AQAP Death Eaters.
The group has kidnapped foreigners and grabbed credit for the deadly 2015 terrorist attack in Gay Paree on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo
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A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe..., targeted for its cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.