...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...
| ...al-Qaeda has become an ally of the government of Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi and his backers Soddy Arabia and the United Arab Emirates against the Houthis. Over the past decade, the terror group has built up ties with Yemen’s many tribes, and uses anger against American airstrikes to gain recruits... |
The United States on Thursday offered a $5 million reward to find al-Qaeda leader Khalid Batarfi, who urged worldwide attacks on Jews and Americans after Washington recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
The Saudi-born Batarfi is a veteran of the jihadist fighters who backed the Taliban
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in Afghanistan and has become a big shot of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which the United States considers the global network’s deadliest branch.
In a video released in January, Batarfi called 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 precedent-breaking declaration on Jerusalem "a declaration of a new Jewish-Crusader war" and called on Moslems to "rise and attack the Jews and the Americans everywhere."
"The Moslems inside the occupied land must kill every Jew, by running him over, or stabbing him, or by using against him any weapon, or by burning their homes," he said.
The US State Department said it was offering $5 million to anyone who could lead authorities to Batarfi or contribute to his arrest or prosecution.
The United States also raised from $5 million to $10 million the reward offered for Qasim al-Rimi, considered the emir of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
He is already under US and UN sanctions after being linked to a deadly 2008 attack outside the US embassy in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...and for his alleged support to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called underwear bomber who unsuccessfully tried to blow up a US-bound flight on Christmas Day in 2009.
Formed by the 2009 merger of al-Qaeda’s Saudi and Yemen operations, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has carved out its own territory in war-battered Yemen despite being frequently targeted by US drones.