Counterterrorism Research Library Yemen Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula Denies Suffering Losses During Raids, Threatens Response "On Land, Sea, and Air"
Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula Denies Suffering Losses During Raids, Threatens Response "On Land, Sea, and Air"
Last Updated (Sunday, 17 January 2010 21:36) Written by Laith Alkhouri Sunday, 17 January 2010 21:30
Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has issued a new communique -- the first since acknowledging its role in the failed airline bomb plot executed by Nigerian national Umar Abdulmutallab. In its statement, AQAP strongly denied "false claims... that [the Yemeni government] has killed six of us in the provinces of al-Jawf and Saa’da in the al-Ashajer region, and we assure our Muslim Nation that none of the mujahideen were [actually] killed in that insidious unjust attack, but some of the brothers suffer from some minor wounds." The AQAP accused the Yemeni government of seeking to claim a false victory against Al-Qaida "as an offering to Obama and Brown and their allies in the London summit." The group further threatened, "today, the duty of our Muslim nation is to declare Jihad against the infidels and their apostate puppets; not only on land but on sea and in the air too”
