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Senior Qaeda leader calls for attacks on Jews, Americans over Jerusalem
2018-01-24
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A senior al-Qaeda leader has called on Moslems "everywhere" to rise up and kill Jews and Americans 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.

"No Moslem has the right to cede Jerusalem no matter what happens," said Batarfi, a top commander with the group’s powerful Yemen-based branch. "Only a traitor would give it up or hand it over."

"Let them (Moslems) rise and attack the Jews and the Americans everywhere," he said, in the 18-minute video entitled "Our Duty Towards Our Jerusalem".

Breaking with decades of US policy, Trump on December 6 said his administration would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and move its embassy from Tel Aviv to the city.

On Monday, US Vice President Mike Pence pledged to move the embassy by the end of 2019, in a speech to Israel’s parliament that saw Arab politicians expelled after they shouted in protest.

Jerusalem is the third holiest city for Moslems, and the first holy city for Jews.

The US decision to recognize Jerusalem triggered protests across the Moslem world, and was also criticized by several US allies.

In the video, Batarfi dismissed US allies’ protests as not genuine and "nothing but dust thrown in the eyes".

"The greatest responsibility lies upon the Moslems in America and the Western countries in the world," he said.

"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."

Batarfi is a senior figure with 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), described by the US as the worldwide jihadist network’s most dangerous branch.

The group has kidnapped foreigners and grabbed credit for the deadly 2015 attack in Gay Paree on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo
...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 Mohammed.

The United States has intensified its air attacks on AQAP since Trump took office in January.

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