Ayman al-Zawahiri, Al-Qaeda emir, September 3, 2014

Author
Ayman al-Zawahiri
Date
September 3, 2014
Name of Author
Ayman al-Zawahiri
Body

In a video release announcing the formation of AQIS:
“It is an entity that was formed to promulgate the call of the reviving imam Sheikh Usama bin Laden, may Allah have mercy on him, to call the Ummah to unite round the word of Tawhid [monotheism], to wage jihad against its enemies, to liberate its land, to restore its sovereignty, and to revive its Caliphate.”Bill Roggio, “Al Qaeda Opens Branch in the ‘Indian Subcontinent,’” Long War Journal, September 3, 2014, http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/09/al_qaeda_opens_branc.php.

Rhetoric Category
Pro-Islamism
Pro-Jihad
Pro-Violence
Threat
Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS)

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