Saudi al-Qaeda announces alliance with Yemeni counterpart

Yemeni al-Qaeda sources have said that a new al-Qaeda regional leadership is being formed for countries in the Arabian Gulf under Yemeni leadership, with a former Saudi Guantanamo detainee as his deputy. 

The source said the organization chose the prominent Yemeni figure Abo al-Basir as the amir (prince) for the Arabian Countries Organization, and the former Saudi Guantanamo detainee Abo Sufian as the deputy-leader.

The monthly electronic al-Qaeda mouthpiece Sada al-Malahim Magazine stated in its seventh issue that Abo al-Basir has announced a newly unified al-Qaeda organization, following the pledge of allegiance of the Saudi branch to their Yemeni counterpart. 

It stated that Gulf al-Qaeda groups now fall under a single leadership, and the details regarding the issue will be published in a long dialogue with Abo Basir to be released later in Sada al-Malahim, as well as in the Yemeni and international media.

The source said that Amir Abo al-Basir spoke at length in an interview about al-Qaeda concerning the latest attack against the American embassy in Sana’a. He called the embassy a Zionist - Christian fortress in the campaigns against Muslims in Somalia, Arabia, Iraq Afghanistan and Palestine. 

He disclosed some of the organization’s strategies in the Arabian Peninsula, and the new structure which contains youth from the land of the two holy mosques and other countries.

Regarding events in Gaza, Abo Basir addressed the people of Gaza and said “we are preparing to open training camps to send volunteers as reinforcements in order to liberate Palestine.”  Abo Basir explained that al-Qaeda plans now depend on cutting off the oil supplies acquired from the Zionist -Christian campaign in Arabia, which provides fuel and protection to the Zionist regime.

The deputy-amir, Abo Sufian al-Shihri was released from Guantanamo  about ten months ago, and fled to Yemen across the long Saudi border, which is difficult to control. 

President Saleh commended the national, political and general security forces for their part in foiling the plans of a terrorist cell in north Rudah last week. The President said “it was a good performance by security forces, particularly the counter-terrorist combat teams, which managed to stop the cell’s plan before it was carried out.”

The President said that the incidents which have occurred in Marib and Hadramout should be evaluated so as to learn lessons, and to learn from the failures which led to them.

Interior Minister General Mutaher Rashad al-Masri asked security authorities to work as a team, and share information in order to follow up and arrest wanted suspects for referral to the justice system. He stressed the importance of questioning, as well as following up on the movements of terrorists.

The Security Information Center at the Ministry of the Interior said security authorities are now carrying out a wide search for wanted men in all governorates, including the recent raid carried out on a house in the capital where  al-Qaeda elements were arrested last Monday. 

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