Anwar al-Awlaki, Former Senior AQAP Media Official, May 23, 2010

“My message to the Muslims in general, and to those in the Arabian Peninsula in particular, is that we should participate in this Jihad against America… America cannot withstand this Islamic nation. It is too weak. America’s cunning is weaker than a spider web."“Yemeni-American Jihadi Cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki in First Interview with Al-Qaeda Media Calls on Muslim U.S. Servicemen to Kill Fellow Soldiers and says: ‘My Message to the Muslims...is that we should Participate in this Jihad against America...’” Middle East Media Research Institute, May 23, 2010, http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/4202.htm.