Anti-French

Mokhtar Belmokhtar, August 22, 2013

Date
Aug. 22, 2013
Name of Author
Mokhtar Belmokhtar
Body

“We say to France and its allies in the region ... the Mujahideen have met and agreed to defeat your armies and destroy your plans and projects.”“Sahara jihadist groups merge, threaten French interests – report,” Reuters, August 22, 2013, http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/22/northafrica-islamists-idUSL6N0GN2OQ20130822.

Abdelmalek Droukdel, July 1, 2008

Date
Jul. 1, 2008
Name of Author
Abdelmalek Droukdel
Body

“[W]e seek to liberate the Islamic Maghreb from the sons of France and Spain and from all symbols of treason and employment for the outsiders, and protect it from the foreign greed and the crusader’s hegemony.” “An Interview With Abdelmalek Droukdal,” New York Times, July 1, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/world/africa/01transcript-droukdal.html.

Abdelmalek Droukdel, January 2007

Date
Jan. 2007
Name of Author
Abdelmalek Droukdel
Body

“[F]ight the nationals of France and the agents of the crusaders occupying our land.” Craig S. Smith, “Qaeda Affiliate in Algeria Kills 6 as Bombs Strike Police Stations,” New York Times, February 14, 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/14/world/africa/14algeria.html.

Rhetoric Category

Daily Dose

Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

In Their Own Words:

We reiterate once again that the brigades will directly target US bases across the region in case the US enemy commits a folly and decides to strike our resistance fighters and their camps [in Iraq].

Abu Ali al-Askari, Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH) Security Official Mar. 2023
View Archive