Nasir al-Wuhayshi, former leader, March 2014

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Nasir al-Wuhayshi
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Nasir al-Wuhayshi
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“O brothers, the Crusader enemy is still shuffling his papers, so we must remember that we are always fighting the biggest enemy, the leaders of disbelief, and we have to overthrow those leaders, we have to remove the Cross, and the carrier of the Cross is America…”Thomas Joscelyn, “Al-Qaeda’s General Manager Threatens America in Video of Large Gathering,” Long War Journal, April 17, 2014, http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/04/a_video_released_by.php#.

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Anti-American
Anti-Christian
Anti-Western
Threat
AQAP (Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula)

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