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16-08-2014, 12:15
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has called on jihadists to target the United States, after Washington launched air strikes in Iraq against Islamist fighters calling themselves the Islamic State.
In a statement published on a Twitter account affiliated with the group's local affiliate, Ansar al-Shariah, AQAP said on Thursday: "... We declare our solidarity with our Muslim brothers in Iraq."
"We call on all Islamist groups ... to go after America as part of its plan for jihad, militarily, economically, or through the media."
"And we call on every Muslim, especially anyone who can enter America, to champion his brothers by going to war against America with everything he can."
The Reuters news agency said it could not immediately verify the authenticity of the Twitter account.
After its capture of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in June, the Islamic State - previously named the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria - swiftly pushed to the borders of the autonomous ethnic Kurdish region, alarming Baghdad.
Last week it drew the first US air strikes in Iraq since the withdrawal of American troops in 2011.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/08/al-qaeda-yemen-calls-attacks-us-201481511413460575.html
In a statement published on a Twitter account affiliated with the group's local affiliate, Ansar al-Shariah, AQAP said on Thursday: "... We declare our solidarity with our Muslim brothers in Iraq."
"We call on all Islamist groups ... to go after America as part of its plan for jihad, militarily, economically, or through the media."
"And we call on every Muslim, especially anyone who can enter America, to champion his brothers by going to war against America with everything he can."
The Reuters news agency said it could not immediately verify the authenticity of the Twitter account.
After its capture of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in June, the Islamic State - previously named the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria - swiftly pushed to the borders of the autonomous ethnic Kurdish region, alarming Baghdad.
Last week it drew the first US air strikes in Iraq since the withdrawal of American troops in 2011.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/08/al-qaeda-yemen-calls-attacks-us-201481511413460575.html