Yemen’s Al Qaeda Sets Targets as Gulf Oil
First, Indonesia kills Yemen-educated (take a wild guess where) recruiter for deadly hotel bombing: Syaifudin Zuhri or Jaelani is regarded by police as the chief recruiter of suicide bombers for the Al Qaeda-linked terrorist leader Noordin Mohammed Top, who was killed in a police raid last month. Educated in Yemen, Jaelani is accused of recruiting the two so-called “bride grooms” who blew themselves up inside Jakarta’s Marriott and Ritz Carlton hotels on July 17, killing seven people. There’s more Yemen links to that Indonesian terror attack somewhere on here.
Now to the local yokels. Many Americans joined them, they say, assistance from western professors (in addition to the normal leftist academic propaganda apparently) and families of fallen soldiers. And al Qaeda has no love for Texans who are very warm people in fact. They consider Dubai immoral. But fear not, al Masri is monitoring them closely. Maybe if the GCC coughed up more than the few billion dollars that they donated to Yemen in 2006, the Yemeni security might actually catch a few before they bomb Dubai. I’m being entirely sarcastic of course. The statement may be a diversion. Yemen Tribune
SANAA, 09 Oct — In a statement published by Islamist internet websites, al-Qaeda network Friday said its operatives in Yemen “constitute an advanced front to strike oil installations in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries,” and condemned what it dubbed “perversion and immorality in Dubai.” Al-Yaqeen press centre quoted an unidentified al-Qaeda militant as saying “we know where the next strike will be but we don’t know the timing or the purposes,” adding “the number of American fighters joining al-Qaeda is growing but for organizational reasons, we don’t reveal their numbers.”
“Many university teachers in western countries started contacting us and providing us with important information,” said the unidentified militant, adding “the families of killed American nationals also began contacting us,” and “if the entire population of Texas were to perish, we would not have done our duty to the Muslims. We will continue to fight the Americans and will never let them go,” stressing “the US administration never represented the people and seeks to achieve its own personal interests.” He said al-Qaeda network is “fully aware of the axiom: Fight your enemy with the weapon he fears not the weapon you fear,” adding “what al-Qaeda’s enemies fear most is a biological or chemical strike.” Meanwhile, Interior Minister General Brigadier Mutaher Rashad al-Masri Thursday said security agencies in Yemen are “closely monitoring the movements of al-Qaeda operatives.”
