Al-Qaeda has announced in a videotape posted on an Islamic website it is creating the Aden-Abyan army to liberate Yemen from crusaders and their apostate agents.
The military commander of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula AQAP Qasim Al-Raimi said: “We preach the Muslim nation all over the world that we are on the verge of building the first blocks of the army, which would be the line of defense of the nation, its religion and seek the liberation of its sanctities and clearing its territories of the crusaders and their apostate agents.”
We urge you to work hard and continue preparation as you can, he added
In recent months, AQAP has targeted the security and police systems in south and east Yemen using snipers and explosives, he said, adding that Mujahideens experimented sniping and explosive devices in the past to approve them in the future.
Meanwhile, we reserve the most important cards of our organization, but we may be forced to play them according to developments, he said.
‘We preach our Muslim brothers everywhere that Mujahiddeen walk fixed steps, reliant on Allah with Jihad as their means, towards their stated goal which is to implement the Sharia of Allah in the Arabian Peninsula.’
For now, we strike and hide to avoid direct confrontations and appearance, however, our presence is at many mountainous, desert and coastal areas, he said.
We should avoid emerging until we control cities, and our current status seems as a city war and it is like our brothers in the Harakat al-Shabaab Mujahideen in Somalia and Taliban in Afghanistan before their emergence.
The Saleh regime, the Yemeni regime, is still ruling, though it is reeling, and the field and basic services such as water and electricity are still in its hands. Hence, we seek a war of attrition and exhaustion to weaken the enemy, therefore, make it easy to eat it up and then build ourselves.
Al-Qaeda wings in Yemen and Saudi Arabia merged in early 2009 forming AQAP, which has been responsible for many deadly attacks inside the country, mainly in southern and southeastern regions in the last few months.
Announcing its unlimited support to Yemen to face Al-Qaeda threat, the U.S. considers AQAP more dangerous than the main Al-Qaeda group in Afghanistan.
AQAP, after Last year’s Christmas day failed attack on a Detroit-bound airplane, now poses a serious threat to the U.S. national security and vital interests, U.S. officials and analysts argue.
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