Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi, Official AQAP video, September 30, 2014

Date
Sep. 30, 2014
Name of Author
Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi
Body

“For we have come to know the main enemy, and America has for decades supported the occupying Jews in Palestine. And American drones bomb Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Pakistan, and Yemen. And they have killed mujahideen and their leaders as well as many among the Muslim public, and destroyed houses and terrorized children and women.” (Official AQAP video)Thomas Joscelyn and Oren Adaki, “AQAP official calls on rival factions in Syria to unite against West,” Long War Journal, October 1, 2014, http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/10/aqap_leader_calls_on.php.

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