al Qaeda’s Yemeni Affiliate Determined to Attack Inside U.S.

Newsweek’s Declassified blog reports an intelligence analysis prepared by an interagency “fusion center” in California says that recent on-line postings by Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen and Saudi Arabia are “actively promoting” attacks against targets inside the U.S. The “official use only” bulletin, produced by the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center, a partnership of federal, state, and local agencies originally set up to deal with drug trafficking, is entitled “Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula’s Online Rhetoric Signals Shift in Intentions.” A copy of the document, dated April 27, was made available to Declassified for review.

The report is based principally on an analysis of online postings of Sada al-Malahim, described as Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s (AQAP) online magazine.

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