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Awlaki Takes it Up a Notch

Yesterday Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) launched a new English-language online magazine, Inspire, designed to incite domestic homegrown terrorism in Western countries. The Daily Beast quotes terrorism expert Bruce Riedel in their article on the launch:
First, the audience here is clearly the aspiring jihadist in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia [...]

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Posted in: Homeland Security, Terrorism, Yemen

In Yemen, Collateral Damage is Tempting Fate

A Yemeni government airstrike kills a local leader belonging to the Abeida tribe in Yemen’s Marib province:
Yemen observer:
The airstrike mistakenly hit Jabir al-Shabwani when he was at the farm of Al-Qaeda operative, Mohammed Saeed bin jameel. Al-Obeida tribesmen retaliated by attacking the air defense camp, and the military zone in the government compound in the city [...]

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Posted in: Terrorism, Yemen

AQAP Recruits Somali Refugees

From the Washington Examiner:
Al Qaeda Reaps Recruits from Somali Refugees in Yemen
Al Qaeda’s robust terror organization in Yemen in recuriting from a pool of hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees who have fled war in their homeland
If AQAP is able to successfully incorporate Somali refugees into its organization, its options for conducting attacks abroad could [...]

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Posted in: Somalia, Terrorism, Yemen

AQAP Claims Responsibility For Attack on British Ambassador

Al-Qaida Claims it Carried Out Suicide Attack on British Ambassador in Yemen – The Guardian
In claiming responsibility for the April 26th attack on the British Ambassador, the Yemeni al Qaeda affiliate al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) outlined its ostensible motivation for conducting the attack:
Britain is America’s closest ally in its war on Islam, [...]

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Audacious Attack in Yemeni Capital

British Convoy Escapes Attack In Yemen – New York Times
The British ambassador in Yemen narrowly escaped a suicide attack Monday, when a young man in a school uniform detonated his explosives belt near his armored car in a poor neighborhood of Sana’a.
Though no group has yet claimed responsibility for this attack, al Qaeda in the [...]

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Sharif Mobley and Yemen

Al-Qaeda-linked New Jersey Man Sharif Mobley, arrested in Yemen, Worked in Nuclear Power Plants – NY Daily News
Sharif Mobley, a 26-year-old American native of Somali heritage, was arrested in Yemen this month in a roundup of suspected Al Qaeda members. He was being treated at a hospital in San’a [sic] when he killed one guard [...]

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Posted in: Homeland Security, National Security, Terrorism, Yemen

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