alwaght - Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi, an official with al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), based in Yemen, has urged his followers to carry out lone-wolf strikes in Western countries two weeks after his group said it was behind the Paris attacks, SITE Monitoring reported .
"If he is capable to wage individual jihad in the Western countries that fight Islam... then that is better and more harmful," he told the group's media wing when asked if Muslims should quit the West to live in Islamic states, SITE reported .
Ansi added that AQAP had worked to strike Western targets outside Yemen, something that led White House to regard the group as al Qaeda's most active wing after it plotted foiled attacks to bring down international airliners .
"We have made efforts in external work, and the enemy knows the danger of that... We incite the believers to do that," he said .
claimed responsibility for the attack on Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper in Paris this month that killed 17 people. Two of the attackers had spent time in Yemen in 2011 .
Ansarullah movement, the de facto top power in Yemen, is fighting AQAP to bring back security to the country. Saudi regime, reportedly, supports AQAP to weaken Shiite Ansarullah, fearing that Ansarullah's taking of power in its neighboring country can put its interests at risk.
Many political analysts believe that Al Qaeda, like many other terrorist groups, is made-in-the-USA, an instrument of terror designed to fight its enemies on their behalf.
The fact that the US has a long and torrid history of backing terrorist groups will surprise only those who watch the news and ignore history, Counter Punch wrote.
the CIA gave birth to Osama Bin Laden and breastfed his organization during the 1980’s. Former British Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, told the House of Commons that Al Qaeda was unquestionably a product of Western intelligence agencies. Mr. Cook explained that Al Qaeda, which literally means an abbreviation of “the database” in Arabic, was originally the computer database of the thousands of Islamist extremists, who were trained by the CIA and funded by the Saudis, in order to defeat the Russians in Afghanistan.
America’s relationship with Al Qaeda has always been a love-hate affair. Depending on whether a particular Al Qaeda terrorist group in a given region furthers American interests or not, the U.S. State Department either funds or aggressively targets that terrorist group. Even as American foreign policy makers claim to oppose Muslim extremism, they knowingly foment it as a weapon of foreign policy.
The Islamic State is its latest weapon that, much like Al Qaeda, is certainly backfiring. ISIS recently rose to international prominence after its thugs began beheading American journalists. Now the terrorist group controls an area the size of the United Kingdom.
