Al-Qaeda in Yemen Video
Your multi-media terrorist group….
Sanaa, 31 March (AKI) - An al-Qaeda cell in Yemen, known as the Yemen Soldiers Brigade, released the group’s first video on Monday on websites linked to fundamentalist Islam.
The video, which lasts 13 minutes, celebrates the death of Yemeni al-Qaeda leader, Fouz al-Rubei, who was killed in a clash with police near the capital Sanaa in October 2006.
The terrorist was found with other al-Qaeda members in a hideout, which was also used to store explosives, on the outskirts of the city.
Al-Rubei, was condemned to death in 2004 for having carried out attacks on oil pipelines in Yemen in 2002 and for having killed a soldier in the province of Abin.
He managed to escape from prison in February 2006 together with 22 other al-Qaeda members who were in the prison in Sanaa.
The video released on Monday also showed footage of an attack carried out by al-Rubei on an oil pipeline in the country.
The video begins with the words used in a previous audio message by al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, which was dedicated to Yemen.
In that message, bin Laden fiercely attacked Yemen’s president Ali Abdullah Saleh, accusing him of being an American ally.
It also attacked other religious leaders such as the well-known judge Hamud al-Hitar who has been employed to re-educate the al-Qaeda fighters currently in Yemen’s jails.
The video by the Yemen Soldiers Brigade concluded with a statement by a suicide-bomber from Sanaa, Abu Miqdad, who was seen standing between a Kalashnikov rifle and grenade launcher. Miqdad said that he was ready to sacrfice himself for Osama bin Laden.
The footage of Fawaz is of a 2002 attack or 2006?
Attacks that never happened:
QAEDA IN YEMEN SAYS IT ATTACKED FOREIGN OIL ASSETS: SITE
DUBAI, March 31, 2008 (AFP) - Al-Qaeda’s wing in Yemen has said it carried out separate attacks on a French oil pipeline and a Chinese oilfield last week in Yemen, web monitoring group SITE said on Monday.
The attackers, calling themselves the Jund Al-Yemen Brigades claimed they detonated a timed explosive Thursday on a pipeline belonging to France’s Total in the western Saah district, the SITE Intelligence Group reported.
In a statement posted on an Islamist militant website, the group also said it fired mortars Saturday at an oilfield owned by an unidentified Chinese firm in the eastern district of Hadramut.
“Both these operations are stated as means of support against the enemy,” SITE reported, adding that the authenticity of the message could not be verified.
There were no previous reports of the alleged attacks.
In a similar statement on the Internet last week, the militant group said it had targeted the US embassy in Sanaa in an attack that hit a nearby school in the Yemeni capital, without giving the date of the March 18 attack.
A schoolgirl and a policeman were killed and 19 other people wounded in the attack, which Washington said had targeted the US embassy.
The Jund al-Yemen Brigades has claimed responsibility for previous attacks on Belgian and Spanish tourists in Yemen.
Yemen, one of the world’s poorest countries, is awash with weapons and is the ancestral homeland of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for a suicide attack in October 2000 that killed 17 US sailors on the destroyer USS Cole in the southern Yemeni port of Aden.
And of course version number seven of the mortar attack on the embassy:
Sana’a, March 26, 2008 - Yemen’s al-Qaeda military commission member, denied Yemeni government’s version that last week’s attack was aimed at the July 7 girls’ school.
Abu Yahya asserted that a group of Mujahedeen targeted the U.S. Embassy last week by several missiles and that several security forces guarding the embassy were killed and injured in the attack.
Abu Yahya added that when attacked security forces guarding the U.S. embassy fired back injuring several girl students in the school.
Abu Yahya called for forming a neutral commission to investigate into the case and added that they will compensate the families of the injured if the commission finds out that the school was hit by one of their missiles and that the government should do the same if it turns out that the forces guarding the embassy hit the school.
Al-Qaeda militant also asserted that the al-Qaeda militants who carried out the attack against the U.S. Embassy are safe now.
Source: Al-Wasat weekly
A commission to investigate? That’s funny.
