AQAP Spokesman Threatens Attack on American Targets

In a video posted on the Internet on September 30, 2014, Sheik Nasr bin Ali Al-Ansi, a spokesman for Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, said, in response to the attacks by the U.S.-led coalition: "[Fighters] on all fronts must attack the U.S. and its interests wherever they may be." He further said: "These follies of America will constitute the final nail in its coffin."

Following are excerpts:

Sheik Nasr bin Ali Al-Ansi: The Islamic nation is now witnessing a ferocious and unprecedented campaign by the forces of global heresy, in their second world war against our Islamic nation, under the pretext of the war on terror.

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More than 40 countries are participating in this campaign, including a number of Arab countries, which were forced to join and risk their lives in defending this failing war. These countries know full well what the consequences will be. They know that this will not be forgotten, and that their reckoning will be severe.

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As for the Crusader coalition, which is baring its fangs in Iraq and Syria… In light of this plot of deceit, the Muslims must put aside their disputes, and unite their ranks and efforts against their Crusader enemy. They must establish an alliance to strike at the Imam of falsehood and head of heresy.

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[Fighters] on all fronts must attack the U.S. and its interests wherever they may be. We know who our main enemy is. For decades, America has been supporting the Jews who occupy Palestine. American drones have been bombing Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Pakistan, and Yemen. They have killed mujahideen and their leaders, as well as many Muslim civilians. They have destroyed homes and terrorized women and children.

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It should be known that America is the head of the serpent. It is America that is running the show and acting against the mujahideen, and their Islamic enterprise. As for the countries in the coalition that are supporting America, they will pay a steep price for joining this coalition. America will ultimately desert them. When the head falls so do the tails, and it becomes easier to torment them and wreak vengeance upon them.

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These follies of America will constitute the final nail in its coffin.

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It has already had a taste of the might of the mujahideen in Iraq, from where it pulled out in defeat and disappointment. Now the U.S. is back to relive the experience in detail.

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