Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi, Official AQAP video, September 30, 2014

Author
Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi
Date
Sep. 30, 2014
Name of Author
Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi
Quote URL
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/10/aqap_leader_calls_on.php
Body

It must be known that America is the head of the snake,” al Ansi says. “She is the one who mobilizes against the mujahideen and their Islamic project … and if the head falls, its tails fall as well.” (Official AQAP video)Thomas Joscelyn and Oren Adaki, “AQAP official calls on rival factions in Syria to unite against West,” Long War Journal, October 1, 2014, http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/10/aqap_leader_calls_on.php.

Rhetoric Category
Anti-American
Threat
AQAP (Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula)

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