{"id":16072,"date":"2010-02-08T19:50:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T02:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=16072"},"modified":"2010-02-09T18:59:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T01:59:52","slug":"al-qaeda-in-the-arabian-peninsula-urges-jihad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/al-qaeda-in-the-arabian-peninsula-urges-jihad\/","title":{"rendered":"al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Urges Jihad"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Yemen-based offshoot of al-Qaeda has called on Muslims in the region to wage holy war against the US and its allies.<\/p>\n

A purported audio statement by Said al-Shihri, deputy leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, warned “American and Crusader interests are everywhere”.<\/p>\n

“Attack them and eliminate as many enemies as you can,” Mr Shihri urged.<\/p>\n

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has said it was behind a failed bomb attack on a US passenger jet as it flew into Detroit on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n

A Nigerian man, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, has been charged with attempting to blow up the Northwest Airlines Airbus A330.<\/p>\n

He has allegedly said AQAP operatives trained him in Yemen, equipped him with a powerful explosive device and told him what to do.<\/p>\n

via BBC News – Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula urges jihad<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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