Al Qaeda-linked militants in Yemen fire rocket towards U.S. embassy, say revenge for drone strike

Reuters ^ | 09/27/2014

[SeekAndFind]

(Reuters) - An al Qaeda splinter group launched a rocket attack on the U.S. embassy in Sanaa on Saturday, injuring several guards, to retaliate for what it said on social media was a U.S. drone strike in a northern province the day before.

The rocket landed 200 meters from the heavily fortified embassy, which lies in a compound surrounded by high walls, hitting members of the Yemeni special police force who guard the site. At least two were injured, police said.

The attacker fired the rocket from a M72 light anti-tank weapon from a car before speeding away, a police source told Reuters.

Several hours after the attack, Ansar al-Sharia, an affiliate of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), said on its Twitter account it had targeted the embassy with a rocket, injuring several guards and damaging a vehicle.

The group said the attack was revenge for a drone strike on Friday that had seriously wounded children in the northern al Jawf province.

[MeshugeMikey]

I need to learn how to read and “write” in arabic so as to be able to SHARE some of these visuals on Arabic...Language....web forums.....

[SunkenCiv]

The rocket landed 200 meters from the heavily fortified embassy... The attacker fired the rocket from a M72 light anti-tank weapon from a car before speeding away...

[Califreak]

Seperatists, rebels, freedom fighters, blah, blah, blah.

MSM code for moslem

[SunkenCiv]

> Like al-Qaeda, it opposes the Al Saud monarchy. AQAP was formed in January 2009 from a merger of al Qaeda’s Yemeni and Saudi branches. The Saudi group had been effectively suppressed by the Saudi government, forcing its members to seek sanctuary in Yemen. In 2010, it was believed to have several hundred members.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda_in_the_Arabian_Peninsula

Al-Qa‘ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)
http://www.nctc.gov/site/groups/aqap.html

AQAP announces support for ISIL
http://www.yementimes.com/en/1808/news/4216/AQAP-announces-support-for-ISIL.htm

Syrian rebel force of 12,000-15,000 needed to roll back IS group: US
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2014/Sep-26/272133-syrian-rebel-force-of-12000-15000-needed-to-roll-back-is-group-us.ashx#axzz3EIXDTyZJ

US-led air strikes hit IS on Syria’s border with Turkey
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29390781

U.S. Considers a No-Fly Zone to Protect Civilians From Airstrikes by Syria
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/27/world/middleeast/us-considers-a-no-fly-zone-to-protect-civilians-from-airstrikes-by-syria-.html

Kurds see Turkey impeding ISIS fight
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/perspective/features/2014/09/25/Kurds-see-Turkey-impeding-ISIS-fight.html

[DUMBGRUNT]

The attacker fired the rocket from a car using a M72 light anti-tank weapon before speeding away,

The shooter standing out of a sun roof?
The back blast is nothing to play with!
They are so loud that cigarette filters stuck in your ears don't help much!

[SunkenCiv]

He won’t need his ears long.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3208546/posts?page=24#24

[SunkenCiv]

oooh, nice little pic demonstrating what you said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M72_LAW#mediaviewer/File:M72A2_LAW_1969.jpg

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks for the link(s).

Interesting read, those articles.

See, it’s a real tough sell trying to explain to me that al Qaeda and ISIS are not essentially the same entity.

They believe the same. They support the same goals. Their members are interchangeable on short notice.

al Qaeda is known to be operational from Lebanon through Syria into Iraq, into Saudi Arabia, and points South and West.

That’s a real problem IMO. With a strong presence South and West of Israel, and now this new presence North of Israel, I don’t like what I see shaping up.

Who knows what Egypt will wind up being like in the long term?

Israel could essentially find a unified Islamic entity hostile to it on three sides, and wanting war to accomplish what Arabs have been itching to do since long before 1948.

[SunkenCiv]

Israel has had that since before day one. They not only survive but thrive. AQ is ISIS is Hizbollah is Hamas is jihadists. The modern state of Israel was in part a response to the Holocaust (the book I remember was, I think, titled “FOrged in Fury”) in Europe, but mostly a response to the Grand [sic] Mufti’s campaign of terrorism and genocide before there was a modern state of Israel.

[SJackson]

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