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‘Dead’ Al-Qaeda leader Saeed al-Shehri delivers audio message directed at Saudi Arabia and the U.S.

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has posted online an audio message from its second-in-command, Saeed al-Shehri, whose death was announced by Yemen in January, a monitoring group reported Wednesday. The 14-minute audio produced by AQAP’s media arm Al-Malahem Foundation is accompanied by what the US-based SITE Monitoring Service said was…

Reports: Bomber in al-Qaeda plot a secret CIA double agent

The man ordered by Al-Qaeda’s branch in Yemen to blow up a US-bound airliner was a double agent who infiltrated the group and volunteered for the suicide attack, with Saudi intelligence likely playing a key role, US media reported. American officials leaked out details of the extraordinary intelligence coup two days after the White House announced a plot…

Al-Qaeda warns US of new jihad after bin Laden death

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Al-Qaeda’s supremo in Yemen — Osama bin Laden’s ancestral homeland — has warned Americans of a bloodier jihadist struggle to come following the terror mastermind’s killing by US commandos. The warning from Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula came as top US Senator John Kerry announced a trip…

Yemeni cleric urges US military Muslims to attack brothers in arms

Radical Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaqi urged all Muslims serving in the US army to follow the example of Major Nidal Hasan who stands accused of killing 13 comrades, in an Internet video posted on Sunday. “What Nidal Hasan did was heroic… and I call on all Muslims serving in the…